Preciva Dupont Crimping Tool AWG26-18, Dupont Ratchet Crimping with 1550PCS Dupont Male / Female Pin Connectors 0.1-1.0mm² and 460PCS JST Connector for 2.54mm 3.96mm, etc. Connector

Preciva Crimping Tool Kit with all needed materials.The tool, JST-XH Connectors and Dupont Connectors.Within a few days after ordering with Amazon UK I received this very complete set in France. The box it came in was well packaged with enough extra paper to make sure the kit itself was undamaged after the journey overseas. In the sturdy cardboard box we find the Crimping Tool, a very complete and helpful User Manual describing the ins and outs of this set in great detail and in 6 languages.It also comes with a lot of materials to crimp. Two boxes for transport safety packaged in a strong sleeve. One of the 2 plastic organising boxes (the bigger of the 2), contains 1550 Dupont Connector parts. They range from the smallest 1 pin plastic holders to the 6-pin wide plugs. With the small metal pieces for male and female connectors this makes up for a complete crimping solution. But there is even a lot more in this box as well. There are the elbow connectors (they will take a Dupont plug) that can be soldered to your pcb or experiment board. As well as a 150 cm 10-wire ribbon cable to build your first sets of cables with plugs from.The smaller of the two plastic organising boxes contains the 460 pieces for the JST-XH Connectors. This is a system where the male part is soldered to your board and the cable is crimped to the plugs. It delivers plugs/connector combinations from 2 up to and including 6 plugs. The box itself is of a different make compared to the bigger box and might be a little less sturdy. So far it works very well for me.After these preliminaries lets see how the crimping works. The crimping equipment is very sturdy with a good grip. It has a ratchet that blocks the tool in a few steps which turns out to be a real help when crimping. After reading the manual that is very detailed and easy to understand I made my first set of cables with plugs. The way to do this turns out to be very easy if you set the tool with 2 clicks from the wide-open setting. Then you can feed the small metal pin in one of the three openings (see the manual). The numbers 1-3 should be turned towards you (visible) when you feed the pins into the beak. Then you need to visually check how far to feed the cable into it and finalize the crimping movement slowly but surely. At the end of this movement the tool can again be opened and you should have a well crimped connection.All in all I am very pleased with this new addition to my electronics workshop. I have used it in a variety of projects connecting separate electronics circuits on pcb's to each other and for making connections to various sensors and other modules like GPS or break-out boards. The pitch is 2,54 mm which is the standard for most of the experiment boards and solderless breadboards (see pictures). It gives you more than enough parts for many years of DIY-electronics projects. And the tool itself will outlive you if handled with care.I can heartily recommend this Crimping Tooling!PS. pictures of pcb and solderless breadboard showing some usage scenarios, these are not included!

Ok so quick disclaimer, I am the kind of person who gets excited about being able to crimp my own wires. A lot of the work I do in IT invariably leads me to crimping my own network cables, which I find unendingly dull, nevertheless I understand the importance of a nice tidy install to finish off my hobby / electronics projects around the home. Dupont crimping, on the other hand, I find enjoyable, mainly because I know the end result is something that I will see and it will benefit me in my home and hobby life.How depressed was I, then, to receive my previous Dupont crimper about 2 years ago which from start to finish was a complete disaster. I researched for ages the exact type of crimping tool that I would need, but despite this, I couldn't get a single connector to crimp properly. I had watched a couple of youtube videos which seemed to make it clear, but my results yielded nothing.Anyway onto this product, which is what you want to hear about!As you may guess from the lead-up to my actual review, this crimper worked for me first time, straight out of the box. I crimped two beautiful connections onto some 1mm cross sectional area cable (twin & earth - no, I won't be running mains through a Dupont connector, this was just a test!) This is the thickest cable that the product says it will crimp. Worked first time, and pretty nice job. I am not known for amazingly tidy crimping but the instructions are perfect, they make it very clear how to get a good crimp first time. As you can see from my photo, the instructions show you how to do it, and how NOT to do it.Honestly I think the instructions that go with the crimper are half the battle to getting a good crimp. e.g. I didn't know you have to hang the connector out of the crimping tool over half way, lining the wings up with the step change in the upper crimp jaw. None of the Youtube vids I saw mentioned that, or maybe it's specific to this tool. As the instructions say, the wire insulation should not reach the second crimp wing (shown on drawing). The instructions say you must strip 2.5mm of insulation off. Way less than I was doing before.I did a really hard pull test and the connector is definitely not going anywhere. Very strong connection. I'm actually really excited, sad as that sounds.I have a little tip, which seems to make crimping easier. You can actually wedge the connector into the crimping tool and it holds nice and firmly while you get the wire into the right position, if you squeeze the handle until you hear the first ratchet click. One problem I had with my old crimper (and I don't think I managed a single good crimp from it) was that you could not do this, and by the time you lined up the wire, the connector had fallen out the back of the tool. It was almost impossible. Not so with this tool. Works a treat.See my little Amazon review video for a demonstration of this.So this set cost almost as much as my lovely new TS100 soldering iron delivered direct from another (non-Western) website you will have heard of, and no doubt you can get a decent crimper for less money on such a website... but for me, it was 30 quid well spent as I'm delighted I can now crimp dupont - and JST connectors successfully. Win!

The tool has correctly a shaped jaw for the round dupont terminals's insulation clamp, and 2 sizes of jaw for other types. The supplied dupont terminals are better quality than the ones I have bought separately in the past. I have never used JST terminals before and wanted to try them, so this was a good include for me. They fit the end position.The ribbon cable in the kit has very fine non-plated conductors. I don't know the gauge. Something around 0.1mm^2 I think. It's actually described as IDC cable in the product description, which would appear correct. I was able to strip the ends for my test crimps using my thumbnail.Test crimps on the supplied cable with a pair of each type of terminal very satisfactory, was able to get correct position with no problem, worked correctly first time. Absolutely no messing about, no adjusting post-crimp, no having to straighten the terminal. Fantastic.The tool is more expensive than similar looking tools you can buy elsewhere, but definitely worth it for the peace of mind knowing you're getting something that works, and the value-add of the included terminals and cable is reasonably good.I wouldn't go so far as to say the produced crimps are 100% as they do have flaws. You only get 100% with a professional tool costing 100's of pounds and it is not a fair comparison. As an amateur tool however, it is excellent.

This is a relatively cheap kit, with a wide range of connectors.The crimp tool is very good (much better at wrapping the cable grip prongs than my previous one).The range of connector shells is pretty good, but is missing double row versions.But: For the price it covers a wide range of options, and works well.

This is a really good kit. Supplied with a decent amount of Dupont and JST connectors.I am using it to make up custom cables to connect sensors for a home automation project I'm working on.As a bonus, there is an instruction booklet that is a great help for people like myself who have never made up these types of connectors before. After a couple of failed efforts, I am now crimping away with a success rate of about 95%.The crimping tool itself has a good solid feel to it and feels like it's made to last.Overall, I'm very impressed with both the quality and the value.