Electronic – What Would I Need Electrical Wire Testing Hooks For

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I want to buy accessories for soldering but was curious about electrical wire testing hooks:

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What are they for? For picking hard to access little wires? How do i work with them?

Best Answer

If you remove the cap you'll have a metal dingus where you can solder a wire to. You then have a test lead which can hook onto wires, IC pins, resistor leads, you name it. Use it to make signal or power connections or as measuring leads to a DMM.

They allow for finer work than alligator clips, which serve the same function:

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It's a good idea to have some test leads within reach, and to have them in different colors, so that you can tell the signals apart easily when the wiring becomes spaghetti-like; for instance use black for ground and red for your positive power supply.