Reduce type and number of components and hardware. In addition to complying with the transmission system operator's (TSO's) design standards for electrical, mechanical and environmental parameters, ...

Copper bus bars are commonly used instead of wire for carrying high currents. [Dane] needed some bus bars for a project, but he was worried about corrosion. His solution was tin electroplating the bus ...

Components that can connect circuits while minimizing inductance are useful for a number of applications, but are becoming a particular necessity for high-performance switching applications using ...

Regardless of a bus bar’s size or complexity, its fundamental purpose, like a wire or cable, is to connect two or more points of a circuit. Beyond this basic purpose, bus bars offer many other ...

Not every system requires laminated bus bars. In some rack-mounted systems, current levels don’t rise above the capacity of a backplane. In other cases, there are relatively few taps off the power bus ...

Despite the widespread use of low-power ICs—or counterintuitively, because of it—DC power-rail currents on PCBs keep increasing. It’s not unusual to have a modest-size board drawing high tens of amps ...