barrier strips?

[lsurulzes 10+ year member]

I have seen many people using barrier strips on this site. I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how they work. I mean if you hook power to one of the positions is it spread to the whole strip or what?

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[RandyJ 10+ year member]

Barrier strips??, elaborate?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Barrier strips...the little block of screw terminals isolated by a plastic barrier.

How they work? They...ummm...isolate the individual wires?

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[RandyJ 10+ year member]

Barrier strips...the little block of screw terminals isolated by a plastic barrier.
How they work? They...ummm...isolate the individual wires?

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[lsurulzes 10+ year member]

i understand that it keeps the wires apart but does it allow power to go down the whole strip or why is it so widely used?

 

[candyman206 10+ year member]

It makes hooking things up clean. That is right, the contacts on the strip are isolated.

But there are little metal pieces that screw down on them to connect all the terminals. I used barrier strips when I used a relay from my remote turn on lead. Now I got like 6 seperate terminals to hook up different accessories like fans and lights and more amps. But I had to buy one of those connector pieces to have power run along the strip.Oh yeah I looked at the extra parts I got and the connectors are called jumpers.