Had to rethread my (Shimano) dynamo connector today, and wondered why the charger has been fitted with a stranded (instead of solid) cable. Strands make it fairly delicate to insert the cable in the connector, more likely to have a stray strand short circuiting the connection, and more likely to disintegrate under physical stress.

The usual reason to use a stranded cable would be to avoid sectioning under repeated flexing, which is irrelevant (or so it seems) for a dynamo cable.

Am I missing something?

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Had to rethread twice so far, both times after removing the front wheel while packing the bike for travel, in a hurry - I disconnect the cable from the hub, but probably forget about the dangling connector which ends up being squeezed between the tire (2") and the fork. I'll probably try to install a small rubber band to hold the connector out of harm's way. If anyone knows about "best practices", I am all ears.