How To Solder 2 Thick Wires Together

Solder Blobbing Between Thick Wire and a Large Plated Through Hole on the Beefacke Relay Usually keeping adding some flux and keeping the soldering iron a little longer on the joint will help.

How to solder 2 thick wires together. 8 128 a little over 18 inch. You can also use soldering to fuse two wires together. Just like you would do with two solid wires.

Tin the soldering gun ie melt a little solder on it. By first joining wires together you can solder them in place for a strong connection. However I typically solder the wires after performing the twist and before folding the connection back against the side of one of the pieces of wire.

Unravel the wires as little as possible a couple of centimeters of untwisted wire should be fine Solder neatly and use heat shrink tubing to insulate the soldered joints. Choosing the correct solder used to be simple however today you can obtain a wide variety of solders for different tasks. Ryan likes to use these little roach clip things to hold one of the wires.

Twist wires four or five times with fingers for thick wires you may use pliers instead of fingers Cut the excess wire. Use rosin core solder. You should not be able to pull the bundle apart once the solder has cooled.

Repeat the tinning process on the other wire. Heat up the joint and melt the solder with the wire not the soldering iron. Slide heatshrink glue lined sleeving over the join on the soldered bit only then slide more glue lined heatshrink over the whole of the area an seal the whole lot.

Using a wire stripper or your micro flush cutters strip about half an inch of plastic insulation away from the ends of both wires. Second crimp the terminal onto the wire. Take it from a sparky.