Low Cost Servo City Crimping Tool

In keeping with this week's crimping theme, here's Servo City's low cost crimpers.  People have reported them being of good quality.

They say "These heavy duty production crimpers are designed to not only crimp servo male and female connector pins but also larger pins for power wires and battery leads."



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Engineer PA-09: Crimper for Micro Connections

Got a lead on this unit, which jj604@rcgroups says:

My conclusion was that there is only one hand crimper made that works for the 1.25mm and 1.5mm connectors. It can also do the 1mm JST-SH but it's a a bit more of a struggle. They specify it as 1.25-2.5mm but show JST-SH as a typical terminal it can be used for.

On anything above 1.25mm it works a treat. It's not cheap (as in Chinese HobbyKing cheap) but don't let the stamped steel look fool you.

This is a precision Japanese made crimper with a adjustable hinge pin for alignment. It is called the Engineer PA-09.

Engineer PA-09 Micro Connector Crimpers

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Thursday Miscellanea

Some nice airbrush tutorials on RCGroups.  Be sure and look at the first three posts.  More here.  And a store-bought checkerboard stencil.

Cheap GPS hackery here. Very interesting, and it can save on some projects.  Ebay searchage for "U-blox PCI-5S" and "GPS Ceramic Internal Patch 1575.42MHz Antenna 20x20x7mm" about $15 combined!

Servo City has some nice pin crimpers.

Arduino Power Management here.  Using the JeeLib to access the Atmel low level sleep functionality.