In a message on Wednesday 12-13-15 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GE Ed,   
      
    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.   
      
   EV> I Searched on ask.com and saw the Scandanavian Manufacturing   
   EV> Company's name and a City in Japan with the Name Abiko.   
      
   OK, fine, I just don't give myself time to search things like that.   
   I'm too busy fixing computers and installing/upgrading programs and   
   in between repair/update other electronic gear.   
      
   EV> The first instance I find of the name Faston for those terminals,   
   EV> from looking in my old Allied Radio catalogs, is a company called   
   EV> American Pancorp, which was renamed to AMP in later catalogs.   
      
   Thanks to you and Tom I do now know that Abiko is Faston in USA.   
      
    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.   
      
   EV> The Color Code for Terminals is the same here but it relates to the   
   EV> American Wire Guage (Size) standard we use here. Same O Same O.   
      
   Oh yes I know that you older americans don't know the decimal system.   
      
   EV> Red is the smallest Terminal I recall seeing, but I haven't been   
   EV> doing any recent projects where I needed to go to the Hardware Store   
   EV> to buy some, to see any terminals smaller than the Red ones.   
      
   Red and Blue are the most common here too, but in various equipment   
   there are smaller sizes in use. The yellow, blue and red are sizes I   
   keep in stock.   
      
   EV> With all of this Minituration that started being done twenty or more   
   EV> years ago, .....   
      
   Yes, the miniaturizing goes on, to handle capacitors and resistors you   
   need tweezers and looking glass.   
      
   EV> I wouldn't be surprized to see Terminals for sale that can be crimped   
   EV> on a wire the size of a Human Hair.   .... ..   
      
   I don't think crimping that size will be necessary, nor used.   
      
   EV> I have soldered and crimped Uninsulated and Insulated Terminals.   
      
   Me too ......   
      
   EV> They are nice to have around.   
      
   To me they are necessary   
   EV> I just looked but couldn't remember where I have my assortment of   
   EV> terminals, but I did see the Cripming Tool on the top of my   
   EV> workbench.   
      
   To me they are necessary, and stored in cabinet drawers above my work-/   
   radio bench and the crimping tool on top of other tools in a drawer on   
   the side of my desk.   
      
   EV> BTW, I got the Battery for the UPS yesterday and put it in this   
      
   EV> After 24 Hours I will turn it OFF and connect Plugs to the back of   
   EV> it. Right now I inserted the Plugs I usually have in the UPS in a   
   EV> A.C. Power Strip so I could use this pc.   Works For Me!   
      
   Ok, it works for you, but it really isn't necessary to "pre-charge" the   
   battery. Usually there is enough charge in it when you buy it, and   
   never-the-less the built-in charger is constructed for charging when   
   there is a load connected to the output.   
      
   The spike preventing circuit also works constantly even with an empty   
   battery.   
      
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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