What is colloidal silver? It’s made up of silver particles suspended in water. You can search the internet and read, on one side, people who claim its a miracle cure all and on the other end, that its a scam. It’s up to you to decide if colloidal silver has any benefit, but as an engineer, developing a simple colloidal silver generator seemed like ...
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Building large wiring harnesses can be a bit challenging. By large i am talking about harnesses 10’s of feet long or more, with possibly dozens of connectors branching off at various places along the cable. To help with this task, often a full wiring diagram, printed to scale, will be placed on a table, so that technicians can have a visual aid when building ...
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Backshells on connectors are often used to provide strain relief and to protect the cable and connectors from environmental factors. For maximum reliability, the connector manufacturers provide a specific torque that the backshell should be tightened to. There are several ways that the amount of torque applied could be measured. Some will place the connector into a fixture with a calibrated torque wrench, with ...
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A common tool used when assembling custom cables, is a crimper. A crimper, crimps or binds a wire to a connector pin. It does this by effectively squeezing the metal base of a pin to a wire. If you are not familiar with this process, the image below shows the steps necessary to crimp a pin. The part of the tool that actually presses ...
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