How to Splice Wires - How to Solder, How to Crimp, Wire Connectors - 5 different Ways

g'day guys it's Adam from video show me hair and in this video we're gonna run through a bunch of different ways five in fact five different ways of how to join two wires together before we do a big welcome back to the subscribers of the channel I hope you're having a legendary a day if you're new here and you find this video helpful consider supporting the channel by subscribing leaving some comments below and checking out some of the other videos so let's get started there's a bunch of different ways that you can join two wires together some are more dodgy than others and others are fully solid waterproof connections that you could use for even marine application so we're gonna run through five of my favourite ways from my least favorite all the way through to my preferred method it's probably more versions out there but this is probably five of the most common versions that you're gonna find out there and it's sort of an all-in guide for you to follow along first way I'm going to show you is definitely my least favorite and it's definitely not something that you would want to use for a permanent application it is definitely doable though if you're in a pinch and you need to get a quick fix underway or what-have-you this will definitely work but like I said there's better versions out there now how to do this one effectively what you're going to be doing is splicing the two bits of wire together and then insulating it with your electrical tape now if you don't have a decent set of wire strippers I would definitely recommend going and getting a pair these this sort of style is pretty good mainly because you have a wire cutter you have your crimpers in here as well it has a great wire stripper at the top here that's adjustable through the little thread here like this and then what it does is it grips the wire in here grips it and then pulls the end off so we're gonna cut some of this to get our threads here so say we want a nice section there it grips down on the wire and then pulls the end and there you go so for this method using the two pieces of wire you want to cut off some insulation off both ends so there's a good amount of wire exposed on both ends then effectively what you're going to want to do is twist these two pairs together so you cross them over just like this pop them right down to the base like that so you've got maximum amount of copper exposed and then all you want to do is keep them at a right angle like that and then twist the two copper pieces together like so until they are forming one connection just like this now from there it's just a matter of folding this guy over so that it's tight you know you left it like that obviously that's no good because we need to insulate this by taping over this what it's also doing is taping that to that piece of insulation so that it won't pull apart so once you've done that grab your tape start down one end of the wire just like this and then it's just a matter of taping it up when you get to the actual copper piece here make sure that it's nice and flat against the wire itself and you want to go straight over it keeping it nice and tight and it's as simple as that now that's not gonna go anywhere it won't pull apart I know people that use this method for everything and they haven't sort of come a cropper as yet however there are much better ways the problem with this method is while it's a nice tight connection you're effectively relying on the electrical tape to keep that together if that electrical tape wasn't there and there was any pressure on the wire itself it would pull apart a problem with electrical tape is when it's in you know hot applications and you know places that are quite warm and what-have-you aka engine Bay's or exteriors of cars and all of the above it kind of gets a little bit hot and then it kind of stops ticking and then it kind of comes off and then you've got exposed wires with power touching things that it shouldn't so like I said it will work in a pinch but not recommended so the second way that you can join wires together is using some cable Joyner's now these are available pretty well anywhere service stations automotive shops even hardware stores they are a really simple little thing and effectively all it is is you are crimping the two wires together so we have a little bit of insulation happening here on the inside there's some metal tube there and what happens is you forced the wire in both sides and then crimp it down with this you will need a crimper if you have a tool like this you can see there's different colors they are pretty Universal we have your red your blue and your yellow and what that represents is the size of the wire itself so your red is typically a two and a half millimeter to three millimeter four is four four blue is four four millimeters and yellow five millimeters so that sort of the standard size is there so like I said how this one works is you want to have your two pieces of wire here like this from there you want to start with one end and twist him around like so force him in one side get your second bit of wire and in she goes as well and we'll find that center column pressing both in there and jam them together until they're in there like that and then from there you want to get your crimping tool and crimp on both ends on the metal component not the shoulder on the metal in the middle just like that so you can see it will give you the crimps in the middle and you can see there they're squished down what that's doing is effectively just squashing the copper of the wire together and forming a connection that way these are quite tight the only problem I found with these is if you don't crimp this correctly sometimes these can pull out and they're not really designed to be under a lot of load and I would only really use these in a temporary scenario as well the main reason for that is they're not waterproof either you could put electrical tape around the end to add some extra rigidity as well as waterproofing the connection another thing you could do is get some heat shrink itself and get kids like this they're relatively inexpensive and what you could do is basically just get some heat shrink that you would have sitting on the cable before you joined it obviously it's easy here in this application because we're going to cut you're gonna have a wire going that way and a wire going that way so if you do want to heat shrink it or remember to put that on first I'm speaking from way too much experience there alright so on to method three this one's kind of similar to the last one in the fact that you are crimping and using heat shrink but the best thing about this is it's all in one you can find these online for not very much as you can see here just jump on Amazon or Ebay and the best thing is you can get a whole bunch of these for not much and they're gonna last your ages how these basically work is they have some shrink tube already wrapped around the center metal piece so similar to the last version that we just looked at there is that central tube of metal where you join the connectors and squish-squish the copper together the best thing is it's got a built in so pretty simple and pretty quick these one of my favorites so how they work is you want to have your two bits of a wire like we have here so you want to put the first one in give it a bit of a twist just like so second piece of wire that's gonna be running off to this side same sort of deal give him a bit of a give him a bit of a twist pop him in there and just jam in there stop once you get to the Humana be able to see in there but stop when she get the insulation of the wire to the shoulder here same on that side once you're there you're good to go similar to the last method you then want to crimp on both ends of the actual metal itself just like that you can see that's nice and tight and solid connection you can see how it really does squish down on the wires itself and that's effectively how you're getting your connection from there you're just going to need a little handheld flame torch you could use a lighter and then it's just a matter of shrinking your heat shrink and there we go we have a nice waterproof connection and it is also a nice solid connection there in the middle so method 4 and that is soldering you know you've probably heard of soldering wire together before there's lots of people out there but probably say that this is the best way to go and I agree to some extent the upsides with soldering is you are effectively using your two wires together because you're using solder which is highly conductive and by welding that on to your wires you're getting a very good electrical connection the downside in my view of soldering is you need a bunch of kit you need to find your solder which always for me manages to get to the very bottom of my general box of of knickknacks so you've got to find that that's at least 3 cos an hour then you need a actual soldering iron not too big a deal this is my old wall house it's been around the block once or a hundred times and it's a bit more fiddly so you sort of need to have something to hold your wire together you can see there's little clamp a helper handy thingies that you can buy online to be honest I just use a pair does the same thing but there's a bit more mucking around once it's sold it together as well if you need the thing to be waterproof you then have to take the extra step of either using some heat-shrink like we just did before and heat shrinking over the top cord use tape etc etc there are better ways again and maybe just maybe it's coming up soon but this is how you solder so obviously you're going to need some kit you're going to need a soldering iron you are going to need some power as well to power the soldering iron though you do get those funky battery ones these days so depending on your flavor and how much you're gonna be using it then you're obviously gonna need some solder as well you're gonna need some way of holding the wires together and that's about it so how to do it is you need to get your two pieces of wire this time we don't really want to twist them too much together because what you're gonna do is you're kind of gonna jam both ends after you've stripped them of course you're gonna you're gonna basically Jam the two ends in together what you're gonna do is just kind of squish them in together until their wires sort of the strands of that of the copper interlace just like that once you have just sort of squishing down a little bit and then from there you just want to get it laid out so it's good to go from here what you're going to want to do with the soldering iron itself is to heat the wire itself not the solder so you want to get a little bit of solder onto the iron then you want to pop that underneath your wire itself heat up the wire you're going to give it a sec and then as that's heating up you'll know it's hot enough when you can start seeing some smoke and you want to touch then the solder to the wire and it's gonna start melting okay see how it starts melting there and then what you're doing is effectively melting the solder which will go through the strands itself but you just want a good good amount that goes through the actual wire itself until you've got a nice solid connection I've also soldered the table but never mind once you're good to go there let it cool it will be quite hot because remember you've heated up the wire itself and then what we've got is a actual soldered wire itself you can see there that the solder has penetrated the wire and you have a nice solid connection that's not going to get pulled apart at all from there it's a matter of then heat shrinking this you could use some some electrical tape if you really wanted to but heat shrink is the way to go and that brings us to the fifth version and this one is definitely my favorite and in my opinion Eric and it's the best way to go as well you can buy a kit of these solder connections online they are super easy to come by just jump on Amazon or Ebay like you can see here a box of these guys is not very expensive at all and I reckon recommend getting a big box this is lasted me ages I'll probably do a bit of an upgrade because I'm running out there but they're easy to get I recommend getting some what they are is they're Conor the best of both worlds this little center section here the silver part that's sold up and then you have the whole thing wrapped in shrink tube so what this does is instead of being all finicky and mucking around with soldering irons and all the above what you need is your little blowtorch here and what that's going to do is you it this melts the solder melts over the wires to create that really great electrical connection using the solder fusing it together and at the same time it shrinks over the top to give you that waterproof connection these are honestly the best thing since sliced wire bread so to use them you first need to get the right size these are also color coded yeah they're just like just like your wire strippers you get your two bits of wire and then it really is as simple as you want to get the two pieces of copper to join in the middle where the actual solder solder part of the joiner is you just want to pop him in there like that you want to stop where the the shoulder of the insulation of the wire itself you want to stop at about that blue line there on both sides that's gonna grip those shoulders there when you hit it with the heat gun once you have it just like that you can see that both pieces of copper from both wires are connected in the middle anything left to do is join the thing together so you want to get your heat source in this case a little blowtorch and then it's a matter of hitting the solder component there first once that starts melting give it a zig and a zag and that's done once you finish giving it a zap with your heat source give it a little sec or two because it will be quite hot so let it cool down and then you're good to go it's as simple as that so as you can see we have the center part has the solder has soldered in all together we have a crazy strong connection and pulling on there pretty hard and best of best of both worlds we've got the heat shrink kind of built in so you can see that's a nice solid waterproof connection so there you go guys five different ways that you can join your wires together from I get you out of trouble on the side of the road and you need to be able to get home type version on permanent electrical tape version right through to the fully soldered fully waterproof connection here as well that's going to be your best bet let me know in the comments below which version that you think you would use the most or maybe as a version that isn't covered here that you think is better open to discussion of course keen to see what you think I hope you found this video 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Length: 17min 20sec (1040 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 07 2019