🔌 Efficient Scosche 0400BCHSR 100 18 22 Shrink Connector for Optimal Connection Review

GREAT if you have a hair dryer. If you don't have it, buy it. These connectors come in different sizes and I always carry a few of each connector with me. I'm practicing adding a double layer of heat shrink tubing after joining.

Seems to crimp well and hold wires well. I usually crimp most splices twice, just to be sure. I had a few slips after the first crimp, but they were probably 22-24 gauge wires, and I found that shrink butt connectors tend to do this anyway. The heat shrink worked great with both the torch and heat gun.

As an electrician I often use various crimp connectors. We use the T&B brand most of the time at work and I have had good results. The Scosche brand did well and I like the shrink feature which is probably in a 3:1 or 4:1 ratio. I used them to splice a stereo wiring harness, one side was 18 the other varied from 18 to 14 and the end plugs accepted everything. I don't know if it was my crimping tool (channel lock crimp tool) or connectors, but on quite a few of these (both sides of the…