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COMPONENT / FICTIONAL EXAMPLE
Crimp contact
A crimped contact with a mating pin, a retention shoulder and a barrel. The crimp is the connection: everything else only holds it in place.
How it is made.
Stamped and formed, then plated. The barrel is crimped onto the conductor with a tool, and the quality of that one operation decides whether the joint heats up in service.
Illustrative specification
- Mating pin
- Example · Ø2.0 mm
- Barrel
- Example · 0.5–1.0 mm²
- Plating
- Example · gold over nickel
- Retention
- Example · shoulder in housing
- Crimp tool
- Example · ratchet, calibrated
- Pull-out
- Example · per the declared table
Every value above is an illustrative example for a fictional range. It is not a quotation, a rating or a measurement of any real component.
What a datasheet rating does not describe.
The joint it is part of. A connector rated at a current is rated in a defined test arrangement, and the same connector in a different housing with a different crimp can run hotter at half that current.
What it cannot show either.
Whether the crimp was made properly. The joint is inside the barrel, and a bad one looks exactly like a good one from outside until it heats up.