Where can I get busbars with holes?

[TYKE]

Do tinned busbars with holes exist?

I am working up the courage to tackle the spaghetti behind my fuse panel and have been looking for suitable busbars and connector blocks. The only tinned busbars and terminal blocks I can find are flat bars with flat head terminal screws which I guess are used with crimp-on spade/ring terminals on the ends of the wire.

I had anticipated using ones more like the choc block connectors ie a hole for the wire and a grub screw to secure it. Because corosion almost always occurs at a junction it seems to me that using crimp spades to the busbar means 2 junctions whereas the other is only one which must be better IMO or am I missing something.

I would appreciate the views of the forumites.

 

[Dipper]

Index Marine make nickle coated brass ones. I fitted one to my switch panel. I don't think they sell retail any more but they do supply a lot of chandlers.

 

[sailorman]

so do Anchor Marine

 

[TYKE]

Brilliant - exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks.

 

[pappaecho]

I got a clamp style metal busbars when I rewired my boat in 2004 from a normal electrical wholesaler. I think they were good for a couple of hundred amps, and had double screws for the incoming main cable and single screws for 12 outgoing cables. I used the busbars for the negative sides and mcbs for the positive side.
Finally work out the number of circuits you think that you will need and then double it! Trust me the number of electronic and electrical devices that you needs is merely doubled by the need to charge mobile phones, use MP3 players, add SSB radios and digital TV systems!

 

[Refueler]

Even B&Q has proper busbars as block with holes.

 

[gandy]

Something like this from Vehicle Wiring Products .. ? ....

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.eu/VWP-onlinestore/connectors/connectors.php