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Old 03-01-2011, 05:09 PM   #4423 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DJBecker View Post
That's a different situation: the bolts are just providing the compression, rather than providing a conduction path.

I read the question as asking about the connection from the bus bar to the circuit board. The brass bolts are part of the conduction path.
I soldered my bus bars to the pcb and used steel bolts basically for mechanical strength ie so that stresses applied to the busbars wouldn't rip the Cu off the board. No prob!
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