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Crimp Applicator
Symmetry
Abisolieren - Lasertechnik
Assembly – Harness manufacturing
Bending radius
Cable lug
- Cable lugs: Which one is the right one?
- Cable lugs: Which one is the right one?
- Solderless terminals according to DIN 46234
- Solderless terminals according to DIN 46234
Cable sheer
Cable – Preefeeding
- Cable accumulator
- Tension-free (Pre-)Feeding
- The Wire Straightening Line
- Wire-Sag Control
- Wire-Sag Control (Small cross sections)
Chamber play
Compression Ratio
Compression cable lugs
- Compression cable lug (acc. to DIN 46235)
- Compression cable lugs according to DIN 46235
- Compression cable lugs according to DIN 46235
- DIN compression cable lugs and tubular cable lugs – do you know the difference?
- DIN compression cable lugs and tubular cable lugs – do you know the difference?
Conductor
- American Wire Gauge [AWG] and Metric Wire Standards
- Cables with Reduced Insulation
- Classification of Conductors
- Cross section - nominal cross section and its effects on crimp quality
- The Conductor Insulation
Conductor Position
Contact Resistance
Contact area
- Latching Function – Latches
- The contact or functional area
- Transition or Connection of the Wire Crimp to the Functional Area
Crimp Applicator - Sidefeed
Crimp Applicator – Endfeed: Contact break
- Error Contact Brake: Braking force too high
- Error Contact Brake: Braking force too weak.
- The Contact Brake (Endfeed)
Crimp Applicator – Endfeed: Cut-off Tab
Crimp Applicator – Sidefeed: Contact break
Crimp Applicator – Sidefeed: Cut-off Tab
Crimp Applicator – Sidefeed: Shear Unit
- Crimp Applicator Sidefeed - Structure and Function of a Shear Unit
- Shear Unit - Crimp Applicator Sidefeed
Crimp Flank Design
Crimp Force Monitoring
- Crimp Force Monitoring - Schematic structure
- Crimp Force Monitoring - The Force curve
- Crimp Force Monitoring and the Open Crimp Barrel
- Forces in Dependence of the Conductor Cross-Section (Principle)
- Limits of crimp force monitoring - The Headroom
- The "Piezo-Effect"
Crimp applicator - Settings
Crimp applicator – Wear parts
Crimp contact - Types
- Compression cable lug (acc. to DIN 46235)
- Open Crimp Barrel - Endfeed
- Open Crimp Barrel - Sidefeed
- Open Crimp Barrel - Taped Crimp Contacts
- Solderless terminals (acc. to DIN 46234)
- Tubular cable lugs Commercially available, Standard version
- Wire End Ferrules
Crimp technology - Requirements
Crimp width
Crimping
Crimping machine
- Adjusting the Bottom Dead Center
- Machine Capability
- Structure of a Crimping Machine
- Wire Crimp: Creating a Crimp Connection
Crimping – Hand crimp tool
Cross-Section
Cut-off tap
Cutting
- A direct comparison: Cable Shears vs. Side Cutter
- A direct comparison: Cable Shears vs. Side Cutter
- Cable Shears
- Side cutters
- Side cutters
Cutting - Hand tools
Dissasembly
Front Bellmouth
Gas tight
Guide tube
Hand crimp tool
- Adjuster wheel on the hand crimping tool
- Emergency Release Function – Opening the Hand Crimp Tool
- Hand crimp tool - The Positioning Aid (Locator)
- Hand crimp tool - The Table Mount
- Hand Crimp Tools
- Hand Crimp Tools – Types and Differences (Open Crimp Barrel)
- Handling of Hand Crimp Tools
- How important are the assignments in the crimp die of the crimping tool??
- The Crimping Die Set - Assignments
- The Positioning Aid (Locator)
- Turned Contacts - Hand Crimp Tools
Hand tools
Housing
Insulated Cable Lugs
- Contact Assignment – Color Code (Hand crimping pliers)
- Error: Stress Whitening
- Insulated Cable Lugs
- Insulated Cable Lugs - Compensating Cross-Section Differences
- Insulated Cable Lugs - Error due to twisted insertion
- Insulated Cable Lugs - Multiple Crimp
- Insulated Cable Lugs - Position in the Crimp Tool
Large cross sections - Cable Lug & CO
Micrograph
Nominal Cross-Section
Notch crimping
Offene Crimphülse - Isolationscrimp
Open Crimp Barrel
- Areas in the open crimp barrel
- Crimping – A Joining Method
- Error: Crimp Contact is Pre-Damaged
- Insulation Crimp
- Open Crimp Barrel - Definition
- Open Crimp Barrel - Sidefeed
- Open Crimp Barrel - Taped Crimp Contacts
- Wire Crimp - Conductor Crimp
- Wire Crimp Height – Open Crimp Barrel
- Wire Crimp: Creating a Crimp Connection
Open Crimp Barrel: Micrograph Error
Open crimp barrel - Requirements
- Compression Ratio for Open Crimp Barrels
- Conductor End / Conductor Protrusion
- The Effect of Mechanical Loads
Open crimp barrel - Stripping Length
Open crimp barrel – Clip
- The „Shark Tooth“ (Wire Pin)
- The Clip – With or without Insulation Crimp
- The Mult-Element Clip – Crimping tool (Wear Parts)
- The Multi-Element Clip
Open crimp barrel – Cut-off Tab
Open crimp barrel – Insulation crimp
- Insulation Crimp B/F-Shape
- Insulation Crimp B/F-Shape - Error: Wrong dimensioning
- Insulation Crimp: Asymmetric O-Crimp with Seal
- Insulation Crimp: Asymmetric O-Crimp without Seal
- Insulation Crimp: Overlap Crimp (OV) - ERROR
- Insulation Crimp: Overlap Crimp (OV) - ERROR
- Insulation Crimp: Symmetric O-Crimp with Seal
- Verification Insulation Crimp Dimensions: Bending Test
- Verification Insulation Crimp Dimensions: Wrapping Test
Open crimp barrel – Wire crimp
- The Rear Bellmouth - Open Crimp Barrel
- The Transition Zone – Where Flexible turns into Solid (Open crimp barrel)
Quality management
Quality management: Crimp force monitoring
Quality management: Micrograph
Quality management: Micrograph Example - Open crimp barrel
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Crimp flanks roll in too far
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Crimp flanks roll in too far
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Crimp flanks roll in too far
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Crimp flanks roll in too far
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Crimping area open and overfilled
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Crimping area open and overfilled
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - No support height - No support angle
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) ERROR - Severe burr formation - cracking in the crimp base
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) OK
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) OK
- Crimp connection (Open Crimp Barrel) OK
Quality management: Micrograph Example – Turned Contact
Quality management: Open Crimp Barrel
Quality management: Pull-out test
- Pull-out Test
- Pull-out test - Wire end ferrulle
- Pull-Out Test – Procedure
- Pull-out Values
- Requirements for a Pull-Out Tester - Clamping Device for the Wire
- Requirements for a Pull-Out Tester - Receptacle for Crimp Contacts
- Requirements for a Pull-Out Tester - Tester Types
- Test Preparations - Open insulation crimp flanks
- Visual Evaluation During the Pull-Out Test (Absolutely execute)
Quality management: Pull-out test - Error
- Pull-out Test Error: Holding the Test Specimen by Hand
- Pull-out Test Error: Subsequent Opening of the Insulation Crimp Flanks
Quality management: Testing - Error
Quality management: Visual inspection
Roll crimp (Angle contact)
- Roll crimp (Angle contact)
- Roll crimp (Angle contact) - Micrograph
- Roll crimp (Angle contact) - Schematic representation of a crimping process
Screw terminal
Sheathed cables
- Processing of the Inner Conductors
- Rotative Stripping - Sheathed cables
- Sizing of the Stripping
- Special Blades - Twin cable
- Structure of Multi-Core Sheathed Cables
- The Guide tube
Side cutter
Single Wire Seal Assembly
- Assignment of the Seal to the Crimp Contact
- Cleaning of single wire seals
- Video: Inserting crimp connections with seal (VL)
Specialist article
- Cross section - nominal cross section and its effects on crimp quality
- Dissasembly of Crimp Contact and Housing
- Error detection in crimp connections
- Hand Crimp Tools: Processing Open Barrel Contacts
- Limits of crimp force monitoring - The Headroom
- Process optimization? Here's an example!
- The "manual” pull-out test - Tests as a Source of Error
- Turning a 0.25 mm² wire cross-section into 0.5 mm²?
- Wire end ferrule and clamp connections - Yes or no?
Splice technology
- Length of the spliceband
- Positioning in the Splice Connection
- Processing of Solid & Enamelled Wires
- Setup of a Splice Machine
- Splice technology
- Splice technology - Video
- The Basic Procedure – Creating A Splice Connection
- The Splice Machine
- The Spliceband
- The surface of the spliceband
Splice technology: Combinations
- Combination: Solid Conductor with Solid Conductor
- Combination: Stranded Conductor with Solid Conductor
- Combination: Stranded Conductor with Stranded Conductor
Splice technology: Quality management
Stripper-Crimper
- Damaged Surface of the Wire Strands (Error Stripper-Crimper)
- Stripper-Crimper
- Stripper-Crimper: Gripper Unit
- Stripper-Crimper: The Functional Units
- Stripper-Crimper: The Work Cycle
Stripper-Crimper: Error
- Stripper-Crimper Error: Wire Inserted at a Wrong Angle
- Stripper-Crimper: Errors in the Gripper Unit
- Stripper-Crimper: Errors in the Gripper Unit
Stripping
- Basic Principles of Stripping
- Radius Baldes
- Special Blades - Twin cable
- Stripping (Result requirements)
Stripping - Hand tools
- Stripping (Result requirements)
- Stripping Tool with V-Shaped Blades
- Wire Stripper with Straight Blades
Stripping - Laser technology
- Fundamental working methods - Method 1: The Wire is Rotated Under the Laser Beam
- Fundamental working methods - Method 2: Wire is Fixed, Laser is moving in one or two axes
- Fundamental working methods - Method 3: Control of the Laser Beam by Galvanometer
- How does the Technology work? A Simple Explanation
- Laserstripping - The Task
- Machine parameters - application possibilities and the safety
- What is laser stripping?
Stripping - Rotative
Stripping Error
- Damaged Surface of the Wire Strands (Error Stripper-Crimper)
- Insulation Threads on the Cutting Edges
- Single Strands Damaged and / or Cut off (Deformed wire end)
- Single Strands Damaged and / or Cut off (Incorrect dimensioning)
- Single Strands Damaged and / or Cut off (Incorrect mounting)
- Variations in Stripping Length
Tubular cable lug
- DIN compression cable lugs and tubular cable lugs – do you know the difference?
- DIN compression cable lugs and tubular cable lugs – do you know the difference?
- Tubular cable lugs: a classic standard type product
- Tubular cable lugs: a classic standard type product
Turned Contacts
- Processing Turned Contacts
- Turned Contacts
- Turned Contacts - Hand Crimp Tools
- Turned Contacts - Structure and Geometry
Turned contact: Error
- Error: Turned Contacts - Broken Wire Strands
- Error: Turned Contacts - Deformed Crimp Contact BEFORE Crimping
- Error: Turned Contacts - The crimp contact is deformed after crimping
Visual Inspection
Wear Parts
Wire Crimp
Wire End Ferrules
- Ferrule Color Codes (example: Germany)
- Installation of Wires with Ferrules
- Plastic Collar Insulation – With or Without
- Positioning wire end ferrules in the crimping tool
- Processing Wire End Ferrules
- Pull-out test - Wire end ferrulle
- Pull-out test - Wire end ferrulle - Pull-Out Values
- Structure of Wire End Ferrules
- The functional principle: Crimping tool for wire end ferrules with automatic cross-section adjustment
- Wire end ferrule and clamp connections - Yes or no?
- Wire end ferrule and clamp connections - Yes or no?
- Wire End Ferrule Types
- Wire End Ferrules
- Wire End Ferrules - Assignment
- Wire End Ferrules - Conductor Protrusion
- Wire End Ferrules - Requirement on the Crimp
Wire End Ferrules: Error