Bus bar options or ideas needed

[dna4engr]

I've done some searching and found one thread that discussed using a bus bar for wiring a bunch of items in a scaler. There wasn't a clear resolution so I wanted to pose the question again.

Does anyone make or are there any good homemade bus bar ideas out there?

I'm building a scaler that will have 7 led bars, 2 winches, 2 steering servos, a sound card, and who knows what else. I plan to run each steering servo off its own bec, the winches will run off 1 esc for control, with a double throw switch to select which winch wil be controlled. Plus a castle mmp with a brushless motor. All powered by a single 3s batt.
That's at least 12 items running off one circuit. Normally I would have splices throughout the truck to make this work but wondering if a bus bar would be a better solution. From what I've read, interference can be an issue. Any feedback on ideas that have worked or not worked for you all is appreciated.

Thanks.

[offroadace]

You'll probably need something like this.
There a ton of varieties pin numbers to choose but you'll need to watch the size, but they don't seem to get too large.

Multi-Circuit connector

[Chiphead]

Receiver Power Distributor

Here's and idea from HeyOk

[Ditchrat]

Try a piece of circuit board. You can solder jumper or draw your own paths.



or

https://www.google.com/search?q=circ...terminal+block

[Brainanator]

I use "european terminal" for when I want to basically make a big splitter for lots of lights and such:
european terminal | eBay

I just cut off a pair, clamp down power in on one side, and then I can easily add/remove wires from the other side.

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by Ditchrat

Try a piece of circuit board. You can solder jumper or draw your own paths.

I've also done this. To make it a bit easier to connect/disconnect, get some screw terminals and solder them in:

[cabron]

found these guys a while back and they have several interesting "things".

something like this will let you build a strip to handle multiple connection
0.1" Servo Strip PCB
when used with something like this
Gold Triple Row Female to Male Adapter Header - 120 Pin

there are several possibilities there, just look around. I could not sleep after I found this site
for all the ideas I was getting. haha

look at the examples they show with each product

[heyok]

Originally Posted by Chiphead

Receiver Power Distributor

Here's and idea from HeyOk

Thanks for the mention!

I can make it with more pins if you need it.

[Ditchrat]

Originally Posted by C*H*U*D

I've also done this. To make it a bit easier to connect/disconnect, get some screw terminals and solder them in:

Thats nice and small.



This stuff can be great to work with. Comes in male to male, female to male and female to female. You can solder the pins into the board, leaving the other end open. Leds, once you cut them even, will fit right into the female end. Female ends and male ends will fit into servo wire. They come in different lenght, and you can break them away into pairs. You can even pull the pins out and insert them in servo connectors.

I use these all the time when testing and setting up leds prior to soldering and hard wiring things. I have several small scale rigs set up using these plugs and not even bothering to solder things up. If I want to change from white lights to red I simple pull out the leds and put new ones in.

If I want to run 10 pairs I simple cut an 11 x 2 piece of board, insert the males into the board. On the back side I use a piece of solid wire to jump them and solder it up. Add input wires, then liquid electrical tape the whole thing together, clean it up with shrink wrap and done.

[hotwheels000]

Heyok bus bar works great !

If you have any old receivers you can cut them open and use the bus bar from them for free. All the hot and ground pins are bonded so it does exactly what you need. Look in my build thread ( sloppy, stiffy or prego) cant remember if I renamed the truck everytime I rebuilt it on here.... I have done the rx thing many times with old futaba magnum and other old rx's I had laying aroumd from the 80's and 90's

[offroadace]

I saw someone use serial connectors also. These look pretty solid. I might have to look into this as well.

Serial connector

[Natedog]

Originally Posted by Ditchrat

Try a piece of circuit board. You can solder jumper or draw your own paths.
or

https://www.google.com/search?q=circ...terminal+block

Either of these two!

Originally Posted by cabron

found these guys a while back and they have several interesting "things".

something like this will let you build a strip to handle multiple connection
0.1" Servo Strip PCB
when used with something like this
Gold Triple Row Female to Male Adapter Header - 120 Pin

there are several possibilities there, just look around. I could not sleep after I found this site
for all the ideas I was getting. haha

look at the examples they show with each product

Very nice!

Originally Posted by heyok

Thanks for the mention!

I can make it with more pins if you need it.

That's how I'm building mine.

Originally Posted by hotwheels000

Heyok bus bar works great !

If you have any old receivers you can cut them open and use the bus bar from them for free. All the hot and ground pins are bonded so it does exactly what you need. Look in my build thread ( sloppy, stiffy or prego) cant remember if I renamed the truck everytime I rebuilt it on here.... I have done the rx thing many times with old futaba magnum and other old rx's I had laying aroumd from the 80's and 90's

Good use for old dead rx.

[cabron]

Originally Posted by Ditchrat

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where did you find these?

thanks

[Ditchrat]

Originally Posted by cabron

where did you find these?

thanks

Ebay, newegg, various computer parts vendors. They have a name but it escapes me at the moment. Often times they are referred to as ribbon wires.

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by cabron

where did you find these?

thanks

You can get them from Adafruit too:

https://www.adafruit.com/products/1957