[time-nuts] DC distribution

[jimlux]

On 10/5/19 5:37 PM, Scott McGrath wrote:
> As to crimping tools it’s important to use the correct power pole tooling as the alignment of the crimp is critical to contact insertion.
> 
> Ive found the West Mountain Radio tool to be good for the smaller powerpoles  I’ve got the Anderson crimper for the 75 amp powerpoles.
> 
> Anything larger - i use a local assembly house which has hydraulic crimpers for Anderson connectors.
> 
> 
  a sort of generic question, not specifically aimed at this application 
- there's a lot of specialized operations that are better left to 
someone that knows how to do it. How does one find such assembly houses?

It's not like the "yellow pages" are useful (or maybe they are, I've not 
looked recently).

Some of them I could figure out - if I needed big crimp lugs on 2/0 fine 
strand wire, I'd call around to welding supply places like airgas, and 
ask them.  But that is specialized knowledge in itself - I happen to 
know that Airgas is a welding supply place (as well as a supplier of 
bottled gases).


For instance, I'm, in the background, looking for companies that are 
interested in doing runs of qty:100-200 for a combined RF/digital 
device, including the RF test, etc. (see recent comment about swarms of 
satellites) There's plenty of board houses that will make boards (and 
assemblies), but they don't necessarily have RF expertise - and they're 
busy doing what they do, they aren't interested in setting up several 
hundred thousand dollars worth of test equipment and training people to 
use it.

So how does one find these companies?