Reply to "The best gauge of wire to use ?"

RJR posted:

I've never sen connectors such as you describe, but 2 questions come to mind:  How do you know you've applied enough heat to actually melt the solder and heat up the wires enough to accept the solder (the dreaded cold solder joint?  How do you know that some dirt on the wire hasn't prevented the solder from adhering?

The house smoke detector will beep😁

Yardmaster96-

get two wires

a soldering iron

and practice soldering. 

Start by just getting the solder on one wire-that’s called “tinning”...

Once you have both “tinned”

when you put them together 

you might not even have to add more solder  

Its not not difficult to learn. 

The trick is let the solder run towards the heated tip through the wire. 

Good luck