There are many different types of crimping tools for cable wires, and the commonly-used types are handheld manual crimpers, hydraulic crimpers, battery powered hydraulic crimping tools and electric motor driven crimpers.
Hand crimpers, also called manual wire crimping pliers, are manually operated and generally used for smaller cable wires. Some hand crimpers also come with the functions of stripping and cutting wire. Therefore, the main function of wire crimper: stripping wire and insert it into the terminal end, and use the crimping pliers for clamping wires to connect to terminals.
Hydraulic crimpers, also called hydraulic crimping tools, just like its name implies, are operated by hydraulic work system, inter-built hydraulic pump or outside hydraulic pump. With heavy duty crimping force, such as 6 ton, 8 ton, 10 ton, 12 ton, 14 ton hydraulic pressing pressure, etc. Basically, hydraulic crimper is used with interchangeable crimping dies of different sizes to crimp cable, wire, connector, lug, and etc., such as 4sqmm, 6sqmm, 8sqmm, 10sqmm, … 300sqmm, 400sqmm. Also, there is a type of dieless hydraulic wire crimper and you can do the crimping jobs more faster.
However, the hydraulic crimping tool with dies can be applied for a wider range of wire or cable sizes. JETECO Tools provides you a wide range of hydraulic cable wire crimping tools with 8 dies, 11 dies, 12 dies etc., for crimping a wide range of wires 4-70sqmm, 10-120sqmm, 10-300sqmm, 16-400sqmm, etc.
The popular battery powered hydraulic crimping tools, is a professional cordless crimping tools, which are operated by rechargeable lithium battery. The battery operated cable crimper is light weight and portable which can be operated by one hand.
The electric motor driven crimping tool, is operated by AC power supply, such as AC power supply 110 volts, 120 volts, 220 volts, 380 volts and like that. With 1.8 meters length of cable equipped with plugs.
There are also remote cable controlled electrical powered hydraulic crimping tool heads, driven by external electric motor hydraulic pump. By that, the hydraulic crimping tool heads must be driven by hydraulic pumps, or electric hydraulic pumps. The hydraulic crimping tool heads are suitable for large sizes of electric overhead lines and underground cable lines.
For electricians, the most commonly used are the handheld crimping tools and hydraulic crimping tools. Generally speaking, hand crimpers are used for wires with a cross-sectional area of 35sqmm and below, and hydraulic crimpers for compression cable wires above 35sqmm.