General

All cables, cores and terminals should be marked for identification purposes by permanent indelible methods (cable markers). All cable wiring and identification should be documented.

Crimped terminations are generally preferable to bare copper (there is a risk of stray strands causing circuit faults), crimped connections are more readily inserted and removed.

Crimping tools of the hand ratchet type are to be used, hydraulic in larger size cable. Note; the simple plier type often results in slack joints.

The good general rule is only one wire per terminal, some terminals have special conditions applied and the manufacturer‘s documentation will need to be referred to.

For the provision of re-terminating cables, enough length of conductor core should be left to allow for at least one termination.