Terminals on studs: Four and no more

Salvo wrote:
Who pushed your button? There's a good chance the wire lugs make no contact with the stud. Current flows through the stack of lugs. The resistance between lug and stud is orders of magnitude greater than the resistance between lugs. There is no compressive force between lug and stud, that's why this resistance is high.

OnaQuest wrote:
I don't need to read it again. I agree, the stud in the first case IS NOT DESIGNED to carry the current, but if you think there is no current flow through the stud, especially if there is any resistance in that tall stack of terminals, you're wrong.

No one ever said, or even implied, that the edge of any terminal against the stud was a reliable current path. Some of you folks are just too narrow minded to consider the facts. Current can very easily pass (and would probably be impossible to stop) through the terminal contact with the nut, through the tightened threads, and on down the stud.

This is a fact, and is expected and depended upon in many grounding lug situations for otherwise insulated chassis configurations. Accept it, and get over yourself.