I needed to splice 4 wires together (between 18awg and 14awg) and to do it as neatly as possible, so heres how I did it.
bare the ends of 3 of the wires and hold them together with heatshrink tubing (or tape if you prefer)
then hold the other wire in the middle of them
then wrap some thin copper or tinned copper wire around the joint. (using a pair if tweezers to hold the binding wire), trim the ends of the binding wire and then solder the joint using a decent soldering iron. in my case its a 50W temperature controlled iron with a 5mm wide tip.
remove the original piece of heatshrink and add some new heatshrink over the join, show with a pound coin for scale, and should be good for 20 to 25A for the low voltage motors it needs to supply power to.
think Its come out alot better than twisting the end of the wires together
bare the ends of 3 of the wires and hold them together with heatshrink tubing (or tape if you prefer)
then hold the other wire in the middle of them
then wrap some thin copper or tinned copper wire around the joint. (using a pair if tweezers to hold the binding wire), trim the ends of the binding wire and then solder the joint using a decent soldering iron. in my case its a 50W temperature controlled iron with a 5mm wide tip.
remove the original piece of heatshrink and add some new heatshrink over the join, show with a pound coin for scale, and should be good for 20 to 25A for the low voltage motors it needs to supply power to.
think Its come out alot better than twisting the end of the wires together
