power block

[asandberg6]

What do you all think of my plan for a home brew power distribution block? This is would be made from wood, or better yet, cut from a Teflon block and 2 ground bars.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/asandberg6/powerdistribution.jpg

[M0HAK]

Does't look very safe to me. I'd like to see better separation between the two bars and the whole thing insulated to prevent something conducting being dropped on top.

Andy

[5B4AJB]

I have in the past, built a wooden stand for my power supply which has fuses, switches (lights) and sockets inside it.
A few of those connectors you have indicated on the front for good measure, but a couple of sets of banana sockets are most useful.

Having switches is OK for receivers etc, but my next incarnation will have some nice 16A relays inside it too (and a nice big solid-state one for my HF set).

[m0bov]

Nooooo!! Lol :) Ok, I would put fuses on both those cables and have the "bars" inside a metal box which is grounded (shielded).

I've never found the need for these things cos I have a PSU with binding posts, its also got sprung loaded terminals for accepting nanar plugs and the like. I recokon it would be better to wire directly to the PSU. You might easily draw a lot of current down those two cables. :shock:

Good luck!