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Linking 3 x 4 terminal Victron bus bars together to make a 12 terminal bus bar?

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Does anybody know if there is a metal bridge of some kind properly rated to combined 3 Victron 4 terminal bus bars together to make a 12 terminal bus bar? Many thanks in advance.

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Michelle Konzack answered ·

Nope. You have to do it yourself using a Flat Copper Bar and make sure it is big enough to support the current.

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alaskannoob avatar image alaskannoob commented ·

Looks like this thing might do it.


https://www.bluesea.com/products/9160/ML_Series_Link_Bus

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kevgermany answered ·

An alternative is to use multiple Lynx distributors.

Some people use copper pipe hammered flat instead of the bar that @Michelle Konzack mentioned. But I wouldn't recommend a bodge like that.

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alaskannoob avatar image alaskannoob commented ·
I need to connect some t-fuses to it, so I don't think Lynx will work for that.
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Michelle Konzack answered ·

I can not more remember how broad the Flat Copper Bar was, but the thickness was 5mm and I bolted it over the two bolts in the middle.


My customer had 3 of it and I made bolts in the middle between the bus bars, hence to connect the 4 Batteries (each 48V, 200Ah) and then on one end of the Busbar the 3 MultiPlus-II 48/5000 and opposite in the middle nothig (for now) and on the left/right Busbar each a SmartSolar MPPT 250/100-Tr VE.Can.


In this way I have mostly optimised the power between the 4 Batteries, 3 MultiPlus-II and two SmartSolar.


The leftover in the middle could be a 5kW Windmill if not connected 3-oase to the ACout1 of the MultiPlus-II.


I do not know, why the OP want to join the 3 busbars, but it sound like he want to use what he has to connect some heavier loads on it.

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