rusty959 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 i dont understand the appeal to gold connectors. gold ranks under copper and silver ranks above copper. plus silver is cheaper. why dont we see silver plated connectors? It is because a connection isn't the same as a continuous length of wire. The gold plated connector will (maybe) have a lower resistance across the connection. Obviously there are more variables to it. And to clear up the whole capacitance thing, wires have capacitance. Now obviously if you might not notice a few farads hooked up to your dc system you won't notice the essentially unmeasurable amount in your wires or buss bars. Now if it was ac and you bumped the frequency up high enough you will eventually notice it. and as AMI said a few hundred miles and some ac and you will notice it for sure. Long story short, lol at thinking buss bars are that different from some 0 gauge. Quote 2013 Subaru BRZ12" Orion HCCA on AQ 22001967 mustang restoration project: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/110765-mustang-restoration-build-2011-edition/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/therusty959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSkippyJ Posted October 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 This guy wasn't talking about capacitance, if you re-read what he wrote he is stating that the 0g will not connect the batteries but the busbars will. The busbars will allow the batteries to act as a single big battery rather than, well I'm not sure exactly what he thinks happens otherwise. Quote F150: Stock 2019 Harley Road Glide: Amp: TM400Xad - 4 channel 400 watt Processor: DSR1 Fairing (Front) 6.5s -MMats PA601cx Lid (Rear) 6x9s - TMS69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamHT Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 It makes it so that only the center batteries are being drained, lol Quote Tell me...does this smell like chloroform to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skullz Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 When using buss bars and battery banks remember that d/c current flows like water so there is a certain way you'll need to hook things up so everything works as one. Never hook batteries up where the positive and negative are across from each other with buss bars cause d/c current will take the path of least resistance and go through battery number one and bypass all the rest even though they are all connected. You need to hook positives at one end of the buss bars or bank of batteries and negatives to the other side of the buss bars or battery bank, cause if the electron can't travel through all the batteries then the ones it can't travel through are wasted. Quote 01 Ford focus ZX3 Pioneer AVH-X491BHS PPI PC 4800.2 Morel Maximo 6.5" x2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty959 Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 This guy wasn't talking about capacitance, if you re-read what he wrote he is stating that the 0g will not connect the batteries but the busbars will. The busbars will allow the batteries to act as a single big battery rather than, well I'm not sure exactly what he thinks happens otherwise. Anything storing charge in the manner he speaks is acting as a capacitor. When using buss bars and battery banks remember that d/c current flows like water so there is a certain way you'll need to hook things up so everything works as one. Never hook batteries up where the positive and negative are across from each other with buss bars cause d/c current will take the path of least resistance and go through battery number one and bypass all the rest even though they are all connected. You need to hook positives at one end of the buss bars or bank of batteries and negatives to the other side of the buss bars or battery bank, cause if the electron can't travel through all the batteries then the ones it can't travel through are wasted. False. I would systematically go through and disprove everything you just said but its pretty much all wrong unless I can't make sense of what you are writing. Feel free to draw a picture. Otherwise, no. Quote 2013 Subaru BRZ12" Orion HCCA on AQ 22001967 mustang restoration project: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/110765-mustang-restoration-build-2011-edition/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/therusty959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finkster Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 When using buss bars and battery banks remember that d/c current flows like water so there is a certain way you'll need to hook things up so everything works as one. Never hook batteries up where the positive and negative are across from each other with buss bars cause d/c current will take the path of least resistance and go through battery number one and bypass all the rest even though they are all connected. You need to hook positives at one end of the buss bars or bank of batteries and negatives to the other side of the buss bars or battery bank, cause if the electron can't travel through all the batteries then the ones it can't travel through are wasted. Quote DAT 4125------>RE XXX comps active Eclipse cd7000 I serve drunks for a living Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superjay Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 there's a whole bunch of stupid going on in this thread Quote Principal JTech Consulting - Leader in 12-Volt Training and Product PlanningIt's not about how much power you have, but how well you use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroznBeavrBALLs Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 is he talking about connecting batts together with buss bars vs. wire? or just using bussbars on your batts? because either way your going to be using wire at some point.lol... I also dont understand when he says " that the bussbars will store DC voltage, where Wire wont." .... i feel like it wouldn't matter.? but i dont know just learning here. Quote 2 DC 12" lvl 4s 1 DC 1.2k XS Power S3400 big 3 Alll KNU wire Pioneer HU cheapo Legacy coaxes (just for now) http://www.stevemead...n-sentra-build/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamHT Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 When using buss bars and battery banks remember that d/c current flows like water so there is a certain way you'll need to hook things up so everything works as one. Never hook batteries up where the positive and negative are across from each other with buss bars cause d/c current will take the path of least resistance and go through battery number one and bypass all the rest even though they are all connected. You need to hook positives at one end of the buss bars or bank of batteries and negatives to the other side of the buss bars or battery bank, cause if the electron can't travel through all the batteries then the ones it can't travel through are wasted. HA HA HA HA HA Quote Tell me...does this smell like chloroform to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSkippyJ Posted October 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 is he talking about connecting batts together with buss bars vs. wire? or just using bussbars on your batts? because either way your going to be using wire at some point.lol... I also dont understand when he says " that the bussbars will store DC voltage, where Wire wont." .... i feel like it wouldn't matter.? but i dont know just learning here. Someone asked which was better, busbars or using 0g to connect a bank of batteries. What I posted was someones response. Quote F150: Stock 2019 Harley Road Glide: Amp: TM400Xad - 4 channel 400 watt Processor: DSR1 Fairing (Front) 6.5s -MMats PA601cx Lid (Rear) 6x9s - TMS69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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