Pretty darn nice crimper that's affordable




Temcoindustrial.com In Freemont, CA (Tower Electric Motor Company) has this crimper built in China to their specs and it does a great job with battery cables , compression dies are accurately sized for the crimp connectors we use for solar battery cable ends. Die sets include all the AWG sizes 8ga up to 4/0 and MCM sizes 250 to 600 MCM in copper and aluminum terminals. Very well built and rugged, very well supported, a company that cares about their image!
Temcoindustrial is is an electric motor supply house and does not have a lot of solar applicable items but they do have a large amount of terminals, and some wire, electrolytic capacitors, and such.
They do accept small sales and have an online store as well as a presence at Amazon and FeeBay, also phone orders are acceptable
At $95.00 ITS A STEAL! With 5 year warranty! I've done hundreds of crimps with this one and no fails!
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You are welcome to supply link(s) to the vendor/product (EBay links usually go bad quickly--Search terms for EBay may work better).
-Bill
Thanks, I didn't want to step on toes here as I do know that wind-sun does sell the hammer crimper. This one is a tad bit different.
Google Amazon & Flea-bay search term: Temco TH0005
https://temcoindustrial.com/temco-hydraulic-cable-lug-crimper-th0005-11-us-ton-6-awg-to-600-mcm.html
I had said it would do 8ga. , I stand corrected it's rated 6 ga. To. 600MCM
Ive done dozens of 4/0 and some 250MCM and 350MCM with this tool
-Bill "moderator" B.
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