Bus Bar - is this right?

Feb 12, 2011
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Allied Luders 33 Toronto
By looking at the picture below (I got it from one of the posts here) not sure if this is a correct way of attaching lugs to the bus bar. Is this acceptable? Shouldn't the lug touch the bus bar?

 
Feb 12, 2011
33
Allied Luders 33 Toronto
Looks like I loaded a thumbnail. How do I insert a large image from Photobucket?
 
Feb 20, 2011
8,062
Island Packet 35 Tucson, AZ/San Carlos, MX
There's a tutorial in the Ask All Sailors forum called "How to post photos".
 
Feb 6, 1998
11,759
Canadian Sailcraft 36T Casco Bay, ME
By looking at the picture below (I got it from one of the posts here) not sure if this is a correct way of attaching lugs to the bus bar. Is this acceptable? Shouldn't the lug touch the bus bar?


Those are the older Blue Sea busbars and the bottom nut is tin plated brass and they were designed to work that way. The nuts were custom, not off the shelf, and the bars rated for 250A continuous. Blue Sea finally changed the design so no more nut on the bottom....