🔧 IWISS Battery Cable Lug Crimper: Heavy Duty Tool for 8-1/0 AWG Wire Lugs with Wire Shear Cutter Review

3.5 stars would have been more accurate, but 3 is meant to outweigh the 4.5 star rating. The picture shows 6 AWG which is NOT accurate. crimped with 7 AWG setting and pancake termination on one side. 2. I read the review to set one side above and the other below the 6 AWG setting. So I made 9 AWG on both to start the hex shape and then adjusted one side to 7 AWG to make it more solid. I rotated the terminal 90 degrees before the second crimp and that helped avoid the pancake, then I also set…

Bought to crimp some Anderson 50a terminals onto 8 AWG wiring. The first two were successful, but after that the crystal deformed so the connectors were no longer holding to the wiring. The 8 AWG setting on the chip looked almost as big as the 4 AWG setting at that moment. Whatever material the matrix is made of, it is not hard enough. Also, the way this thing closes is like pliers - meaning the side closest to the loop is smaller than the other end. So when you close it, it pushes the material

I used this to crimp some 1Ga battery wires and it worked great with a 35mm die. The product description says up to 1 ga but I think it will crimp 1 ga. /0 very well with a 50mm sensor. Here's what I did to test the crimp: The die is pretty narrow, so I made two crimps next to each other at the terminal. I then cut the terminal in half to check the tightness of the strands and it looked nice and tight on the inside. I then cut a clip from the end of the wire, leaving about 1/2 inch of wire to…

I couldn't find an inexpensive crimping tool that was actually made for US AWG wire and terminals/lugs, so I bought this one against my better judgment. But I was suspicious of hammer and hydraulic types for other reasons. I had to crimp terminal lugs on a 6 AWG wire. I ended up using a 16mm die on one jaw and a 10mm die on the other. This left burrs on the tips which I dug up and the mount seems solid but you never need a "stick" for the electrical connection. just a workaround, not acceptable

I did a test crimp and after several days of testing it is still strong. I haven't tried clamping the test crimp in a vise and pulling with pliers, but it will take that much force to separate the wires. That's a lot more reliable than the crimps the pros left in the junction box. A plier-sized ratchet crimp tool did a good job, but the two arms gave the crimp a lot more power. I modified the junction box with 12 ga copper ground wires with steel ferrules and pigtails. I only needed two crimps,