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Basic guidelines ensure superior results and reliability for the epoxy powder coating used to provide critical electrical and mechanical protection for bus bars. Bus bars play an important role in high-current/high-voltage installations. Made of copper or aluminum, they carry electrical power ranging up to hundreds of volts and amps and even higher within cabinets and… View Article
Use Cases for Combining Laminated and Flexible Busbar Technologies
June 4, 2023
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Flexible Busbars
Laminated and flexible busbars are types of electrical conductors used to distribute electrical power in a variety of applications, including Power Electronics and Power Distribution. Laminated busbars and flexible busbars offer a number of key performance advantages such as: Improved reliability: Due to their high-quality construction, laminated and flexible busbars offer improvedreliability for consistent electrical… View Article
There are many situations where it is necessary to join two busbars to create a single, unified unit. This process, called “jointing,” may be needed to create a longer busbar from shorter, more manageable pieces; or to create a T-shaped tap-off connection from the main busbar. The result of jointing must simultaneously meet multiple objectives…. View Article
Design, Fabrication, and Testing Expertise Are Keys to Performance, Reliability Laminated bus bars address two power-related design challenges: they significantly reduce voltage drop due to IR loss in high-current power-distribution systems, and their very low stray inductance minimizes a possible cause of instability and output oscillation in switching power supplies. Depending on size and thickness,… View Article
USING ALUMINUM FOR BUS BARS Design engineers strive to make equipment smaller and more efficient. The hidden assumption being that smaller is always better. Copper bus bars require less cross-sectional area than aluminum and can fit inside a tighter footprint. Thus, the vast majority of electrical equipment is designed with copper bus bars. However,… View Article
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