Specialized Harness Products

United States

The crimping quality is of major importance for a good electrical connection. Poor crimping quality will result in high connection resistance or a bad contact after some time. A good crimping connection is characterized by a completely controlled plastic deformation of both the wire and the barrel of the terminal. Crimping can be done using either hand crimping tools or crimping machines. Specialized Harness Products only processes terminals with crimping machines that verify quality using a CQM CFM system. These crimping machines have an adjustable crimping height to ensure the optimum crimping quality. During the process we carry out several quality checks on the following parameters: *Crimp Height *Wire Withdrawal (Pull Test) * Strip Length * Bell Mouth Size * Carrier cut-off * Cross Sectional Cut for actual crimping quality.

Specialized Harness Products offers over 20 years experience in insert molding . Insert Molding is a unique process were by a set of terminals can be incorporated into plastic. Various connector designs can be created in plastic around terminals, by this process. Specialized has the ability to design specialty connectors for all your harness needs.

New technology has allowed the bonding of copper wires thru ultrasonic welding. This method has for the most part replaced the old crimping of a clip to add a splice to a wire. Although splices complicate the set-up and material handling, they are widely used to reduce harness costs..

This procedure simply insulates a component on a harness. Sleaves can be places over crimped terminals, diodes, resistors, splices, and other components to insulate and protect against weather, temperature, shorts and foreign objects.