Tips or Tricks: Ribbon Sense Wire Stripping?

[Marinepower]

For all those who have already done this - I am in the process of hooking up my SBMS0 to a new pack of cells and finding it very challenging to strip the ribbon volt sensing / balancing wires.  I keep ending up with 1 or 2 broken strands of the very fine gauge wire.   Any one have a tip, tricks or favourite tool for this procedure?

I did search forum to see if could find this info elsewhere.  I know it's a basic procedure.  Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere.

MP

[ask first]

following. Hope someone has a quality stripper. 

[Dacian Todea]

Marinepower,

Most people have wire stripers that can handle the wires easily. I can successfully strip those wires with just one of those blade cutter knives by having the wire between my thumb and cutter to make a small cut in the plastic insulation the rotate the wire 180 degree to make a cut on the other side while at the same time pull the insulation out. Is similar with what a quality cutter will do just faster.

There are at least two major types of wire stripers one is like this  https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/jonard-tools/JIC-2030/2308356  less expensive around $10 and then there is this style but more expensive https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/jonard-tools/WSA-1430/6243500 

[Marinepower]

Thxs Dacian,

for some reason I am struggling to get clean cuts with the tools I have at hand.  I'll pick up a 30 - 20 gauge wire striper and see if that helps.  

I did try the sharp knife + 180 degree rotation trick as my first plan of attack but could not do it constantly.  Poor eye sight is part of the problem for me.

[Gordon Bland]

Just an FYI. I had wire strippers similar to the jic-2030 that I temporarily misplaced so I bought a stripper similar to the wsa-1430. However the more expensive tool seemed b

more suited for thicker wires and struggled with thinner wires (especially cat cable) so the cheaper pliers type stripper worked best for me on thinner wires. 

[Harold]

I would say the same !