Which crimping tool for smart effector
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@wilriker glad to hear you found a tool you like! Remember to check the crimps to ensure they're good -- you should be able to pull as hard as you can on the wire and it will not move at all from the crimp. I hope your hands don't get too tired after many crimps! Perhaps one or two is easy with the manual set, but after doing 20-60 pins, it can get tiresome.
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@bot Actually I did all crimps for the Duet with small and very uncomfortable pliers in a lot of manual steps for each crimp to ensure they are still well done without a proper crimp tool - after this torture everything is an improvement.
With this new tool I could probably wire up ten Duets in a row and would still be very happy. 
But yeah, in the end it is always personal preference and if I had to use a crimp tool for work, I would probably also choose something that can do a crimp in one step - but then again the PA-20 is very light compared to the ratcheting tool.
Anyway, I am really happy with my new tool and I am looking forward to the planned rework of all stepper wirings (and maybe even all wiring, not sure about that yet, though).
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P.S.: Regarding the pull-test: It is even advised on the packaging of the PA-20 to do that after having crimped only the pair of wings that will hold the cable. I did not pull as hard as I could but I wasn't particularly easy on them either - and in this case there will be no pulling force on these cables ever except I decide for some reason to pull out a plug by pulling on the cables instead of the housing (which I try to avoid).
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