12-11-15 09:47 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: UPS Battery   
   Howdy! Holger, GA,   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <566CA94A.14632.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message on Friday 12-09-15 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> GM Ed,   
      
    HG> There's only a small hitch, the "Abiko" connectors on the batteries,   
    HG> are narrower than the original, but the wider female connectors on the   
    HG> leads seem to make enough contact.   
      
    EV> Abiko is a new term/word for what I've always called Faston   
    EV> Terminals. I'll look the word up to see if it is in the Wordweb   
    EV> dictionary.   
      
    HG> You'll not find it in any dictionary, but it's what all those flat   
    HG> terminals/connectors are called here. The name "Abiko" probably stems   
    HG> from the first (to us) known manufacturer of these.   
      
   I Searched on ask.com and saw the Scandanavian Manufacturing Company's name   
   and a City in Japan with the Name Abiko.   
      
   The first instance I find of the name Faston for those terminals, from looking   
   in my old Allied Radio catalogs, is a company called American Pancorp, which   
   was renamed to AMP in later catalogs.   
      
    EV> I have seen two different sizes of Faston terminals in things that I   
    EV> have got to salvage the parts out of them.   
      
    HG> There are at least four different widths known to me. The male   
    HG> terminals come in the sizes: 3/8", 1/4", 5/16" and the female   
    HG> connectors are marked with a coloured plastic collar marking their   
    HG> current carrying capacity. Yellow standing for 6, blue for 2,5 and red   
    HG> for 1.5 sq.millimetres wire size.   
      
   The Color Code for Terminals is the same here but it relates to the American   
   Wire Guage (Size) standard we use here. Same O Same O.   
      
    HG> These are the most common sizes, but then there is at least one   
    HG> narrower male terminal size.   
      
   Red is the smallest Terminal I recall seeing, but I haven't been doing any   
   recent projects where I needed to go to the Hardware Store to buy some,   
   to see any terminals smaller than the Red ones.   
      
   With all of this Minituration that started being done twenty or more years   
   ago, I wouldn't be surprized to see Terminals for sale that can be crimped   
   on a wire the size of a Human Hair.   .... ..   
   I'd surely hate to try soldering a terminal to a wire of that size.   
      
    HG> The wire can be soldered to the connector but usually one uses a crimp   
    HG> tool to attach the wire to the female connector.   
      
   I have soldered and crimped Uninsulated and Insulated Terminals.   
   They are nice to have around.   
   I just looked but couldn't remember where I have my assortment of terminals,   
   but I did see the Cripming Tool on the top of my workbench.   
      
   I use it more for trimming small bolts to the length I need them to be.   
      
   BTW, I got the Battery for the UPS yesterday and put it in this afternoon.   
   I plugged it in to the AC outlet and turned it ON but I don't have anything   
   connected to the UPS Outlets yet.   
      
   After 24 Hours I will turn it OFF and connect Plugs to the back of it.   
   Right now I inserted the Plugs I usually have in the UPS in a A.C. Power Strip   
   so I could use this pc.   Works For Me!   
      
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