A thought occurred to me yesterday when I was wiring up a driver and some speaker terminals.
Most terminal tabs have a hole in them to pass a wire though, is this hole size telling us that this is the largest wire to use when soldering?
The subwoofer tabs have a hole that took 1mm<2 wire and while I know this wire size will take a reasonable load sometimes I think I should be using something that looks more robust and capable of handling more current although I doubt I'll ever put more than a couple of hundred Watts though this old Shiva
Most terminal tabs have a hole in them to pass a wire though, is this hole size telling us that this is the largest wire to use when soldering?
The subwoofer tabs have a hole that took 1mm<2 wire and while I know this wire size will take a reasonable load sometimes I think I should be using something that looks more robust and capable of handling more current although I doubt I'll ever put more than a couple of hundred Watts though this old Shiva
The hole is normally for the locking tabs on a 6.3 mm push connector. There are smaller versions as well, they have a spring like tab inside that keeps them locked onto the metal connector. We use them at work quite a lot.