What size solder sleeve
 

I would like to use solder sleeves for attaching pigtails to shielding, but have no experience with them. Can anyone tell me which size sleeves to order for 2 and 3 conductor shielded tefzel?

Larry

Hi Larry,

I find they come in 4 colours:

White are very thin and useful for joining 2 thin wires (AWG 24 to 20)

Red are bigger and for joining 2 thicker wires (20 AWG to 14 AWG)

Blue I use for joining shielding wires in 2 / 3 / 4 cables

Yellow are too large for most things but occasionally I use them when I have lots of wires bunched together

I would get blue ones for shielding and reds for general purpose wire joining.

Happy soldering !!

Amer

Red and Blue
 

Agree with Amer - Get a bunch of Reds and Blues. They are really great.

Solder sleeve with integral pigtail
 

Take a look at Steinair. He has the solder sleeves in different sizes for shielded wire with the pigtail already built-in to the the sleeve (also without the pigtail).

They work very well to terminate the shielded wire.

https://www.steinair.com/?search_cat...sttype=product

Also see the solder sleeve video on this page for installation instructions. A lot of great wiring videos/tips on this page.

https://www.steinair.com/documents-and-support/videos/

Andy

My opinion so take with a grain of salt. I view solder sleeves as a waste of money and clunky. Soldering a pigtail to a braided shield wire and covering with a piece of heat shrink is a very simple task.

Carl

That is what I did on the 6, but this G3X system wants a LOT of shielded wire (many terminated on both ends) and I thought this would save the hassle of soldering in place in the plane.

Larry

Looking at the stein site, each of the different sizes is blue :confused: Do you know the fractional size of the "blue" sleeve that you recommended 2-3 conductor?

The blue TE connectivity one's that I had identified at Digikey were .180" Does that sound right?

Larry

I use HML-8 for 2-3 conductor shielded wire.

ACS option.

SOLDERING SLEEVE 1/4" 11-07903

I agree with Carl on the use of shrink wrap. Easy and less $$$. I prefer the marine grade shrink wrap on Amazon vs ACS.

When your laying on your back, feet up in the air over your seat backs, under the panel, it is a viable option.
I agree with Carl otherwise, but I have a couple sleeves where putting a heat gun on it was much easier than trying to solder.