Tubular busbars are hollow, lighter in weight, and help improve cooling in high-current systems. In electric power distribution, a busbar (also bus bar) is a metallic strip or bar, typically housed inside switchgear, panel boards, and busway enclosures for local high current power distribution, transmission, or switching substations. They are also used to connect high voltage equipment at. Select busbars according to the rated current of the switchgear to ensure that the busbars will not be damaged by overheating when operating at the rated current. Generally, refer to the busbar current - carrying capacity table and make corrections considering factors such as ambient temperature. While many busbars are custom-shaped and sized to fit the unique needs of the application, there are also smaller busbars that are used directly with a PC board, as shown in Figure 2; these also act as board stiffeners. This means using solid bars of copper (sometimes aluminum) with a cross-section size that keeps resistive losses and.
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