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Wire splice connector sealed8/7/2023 ![]() ![]() We’ve used these (from wirefy or sopoby on Amazon, which are just generic rebrands, but the stores have given us good service when there’ve been issues, which is not often and was always cases broken in shipping and thus missing pieces rather than bad connector batches) on high school competition robots that get banged around, and like them a lot. These things, by themselves, would be nothing more than temporary. So, even with elaborate protection in a marine sort of environment, I’d expect problems eventually. (One still-functioning buried 1″ coax line next to the Intracoastal was swollen up to about 3″ diameter with no observable metal left, due to a nick and lots of salty water.) ![]() And we used a high-quality, glue-lined heavy heat shrink boots on the line connections – but all it took was one little nick in the jacket somewhere and you’d be back replacing that chunk. In my even earlier days of working aerial CATV, I was frequently astonished at what salt air could do to aluminum (the shield in the coax, both solid in trunk lines and braided in drop lines). It that case, there’s little room, no decent slack to pull, and you don’t want to disrupt the neat parallel runs of cables (and call attention to the repair) so it was a perfect solution. In my days of telecom installation work, we had these for “emergency” repairs, and only used one once – in one of many 22g multi-conductor cables, ringing the sheath nicked a wire that broke. ![]()
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