[WARC] Compare Crimp Tools - Anderson PowerPoles

[James Jarvis]

I've tried the very inexpensive tools that are reviewed on that site. 
Unfortunately, I've never gotten them to work.

The West Mountain Radio crimper works well. Mine has had a lot of abuse 
and a whole lot of cycles and works like a champ. The official Anderson 
crimper is about $160 is is supposed to be even nicer.

The lowest initial cost way of installing the power poles is with 
soldering. It's pretty easy to do, it just takes longer than the crimper.

-Jim


Len Litvan wrote:
> Interesting article at this site regarding crimpers for Anderson 
> PowerPoles.  There are some other sources which say that some of the 
> less expensive crimpers work well also.
> 
> An advantage of the $46-$50 West Mountain Radio crimper is that other 
> jaws are available--for coax and other connections.  It might be a good 
> long-term investment for someone who doesn't already have other crimpers 
> specific to certain types of jobs.
> 
> http://www.ntrak.org/ntrak_powerpole_compare.htm
> 
> 73,
> Len  KC0RSX
> 
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