• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m my experience, long term reliability of crimped stranded cable (that particular combo, to be clear) has lower longevity with vibratory environments.

    There are some crimps that are great for stranded, but the RJ series (and others which stamp down) generally don’t seem to be good enough.

    Again, anecdotal, but yeah.

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      I think that has to do more with the heads being used and the quality of the cable than anything. I’ve seen tons of cheap heads on good cable, and it goes poorly after a while.

      I generally recommend cable thats been third party tested for both performance and physical resilience. Haven’t seen any decent riser that wasn’t, but I have seen some patch from major brands that definitely wasn’t.