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Old 04-04-2005, 11:39 AM
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looking at wiring diagrams and there is these things in it. always wondered what they are????
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Old 04-04-2005, 11:42 AM
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a bus bar is a normally a copper conectors used to supply lots of circuits
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bus bar is like an electrically continuous bar..

Can be used for example... underfloor bus bar to feed Floor boxes etc..
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Old 04-04-2005, 11:52 AM
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thought it would be somthing along those lines.
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Old 04-04-2005, 12:02 PM
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the ones in ur heated screen are a good example
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I allways thought that the white trunking in pc data suites (like in schools etc) looks like a big Dado rail was one?
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no mate, dado trunking etc have cables in them.. as opposed to the actual copper of a bus bar being live
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A modern fuse board has one in them. Rather than running all the house circuits from one big socket. The big socket is actually one solid bar with the individual circuits coming off of it. There are probably more than one, i.e one for the live, one for the neutral etc

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pmsl,,,, everyone calls them buzz bars,,, but they really are bus
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i thought it was a pub in lecister square


see we learn somink everyday
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Originally Posted by GARETH T
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pmsl,,,, everyone calls them buzz bars,,, but they really are bus
that made me chuckle too. Get enough power in it though and then it will buzz
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Fozy, or melt,,, like a 500 amp rated one done too me before xmas in work
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MMM, amps....
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aqnyone here do datacomms? cat 5 and all that?
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i have, but not much - work with people that do though.
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aqnyone here do datacomms? cat 5 and all that?
ive done a little mate
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i datacabled the entire house, a lad up the road from me, bob - an electrical engineer - has fully automated his home and runs the house from one computer
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Originally Posted by Graceland
i datacabled the entire house, a lad up the road from me, bob - an electrical engineer - has fully automated his home and runs the house from one computer



Tell him I've done the same but upgraded mine with the wife/mother add on pack.

I now have the benefit of such great commands as...

"Mother, shut the fook up"
"Mother, bring me more food"
and "Mother, piss off can't you see i'm shagging here!!!"
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Tell him I've done the same but upgraded mine with the wife/mother add on pack.

I now have the benefit of such great commands as...

"Mother, shut the fook up"
"Mother, bring me more food"
and "Mother, piss off can't you see i'm shagging here!!!"
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Originally Posted by GARETH T
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pmsl,,,, everyone calls them buzz bars,,, but they really are bus
Not guilty mu ludd, I copied and pasted that straight from a google search and couldn't be arsed to change it.
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Paul Eggleton, hehhehe let you off then
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