Attaching insulated bus bar to metal box
Installing Midnite Solar short bus bars like these: in aluminum breakers box - Big Baby Box from the same Midnite, like this: One bus bar is shown on the photo, and there are mounting...
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Techwriter: I hope some my cables will be thinner. A breaker with gauge 10 panel-controller wire, a breaker with gauge 6 controller-battery wire, a breaker with gauge 8 loads wire. No breaker #4 (yet). This for Pos bus. Neg bus will have wires in/out, but needs no breaker. Will see. In the worst case, will not install Neg bus in box.
Westend - let's see if I understand. Yes, screws heads from the back (if I do it this way) could prevent the box from resting flat on the wall. There is Ground lug on the photo - it is attached from the back, and its head does push the box off the wall. The box has 4 recessed holes for mounting screws - see the photo in the 1st post. So there are 4 bulges on the back, so the box is resting on those bulges, with a little clearance from the wall. Still, darn head screw of the Ground lug pushes the box off the wall. Will have to file the head off a little.
No, box is not mounted yet.
Mex: Yes, I thought of gluing. Yes, there are tiny stubs-pegs on the back of those insulators, and there are pre-drilled holes in the box for those pegs:
See drawing at the bottom
Why drilling the insulator? - look at the diagram in the link, the "sole" of insulator is mostly hollow already. Ebonite dielectric plastic, smells like it.
Westend - let's see if I understand. Yes, screws heads from the back (if I do it this way) could prevent the box from resting flat on the wall. There is Ground lug on the photo - it is attached from the back, and its head does push the box off the wall. The box has 4 recessed holes for mounting screws - see the photo in the 1st post. So there are 4 bulges on the back, so the box is resting on those bulges, with a little clearance from the wall. Still, darn head screw of the Ground lug pushes the box off the wall. Will have to file the head off a little.
No, box is not mounted yet.
Mex: Yes, I thought of gluing. Yes, there are tiny stubs-pegs on the back of those insulators, and there are pre-drilled holes in the box for those pegs:
See drawing at the bottom
Why drilling the insulator? - look at the diagram in the link, the "sole" of insulator is mostly hollow already. Ebonite dielectric plastic, smells like it.
