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<blockquote data-quote="audioholic" data-source="post: 5895080" data-attributes="member: 549629">16volts will not eff you up. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif If 16volts is bad, I should be dead as a door nail, since Ive been hit (pretty hard too) with 480 volts.On the alum versus copper thing, Id opt for copper personally. Yes with enough aluminum material you can equal a smaller amount of copper... but look how big those bars are. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif With buss bars you always have to be careful about possible shorts, as they could be catastrophic (yes even with 12-16v). and a small and easily contained bar system is a requirement for me to run any bussing system. Id rather pay the premium price and have two small runs of copper spanning those batts than I would spend a little less money and have to use such large amounts of alum that the buss bar ends up working like a mounting bracket as well. Just something to consider for the next install, Im sure you&#039;ll make this setup quite safe and acceptable. The copper setup would have been smaller and much easier to do so however.Keep us updated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="audioholic, post: 5895080, member: 549629"] 16volts will not eff you up. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif[/IMG] If 16volts is bad, I should be dead as a door nail, since Ive been hit (pretty hard too) with 480 volts. On the alum versus copper thing, Id opt for copper personally. Yes with enough aluminum material you can equal a smaller amount of copper... but look how big those bars are. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif[/IMG] With buss bars you always have to be careful about possible shorts, as they could be catastrophic (yes even with 12-16v). and a small and easily contained bar system is a requirement for me to run any bussing system. Id rather pay the premium price and have two small runs of copper spanning those batts than I would spend a little less money and have to use such large amounts of alum that the buss bar ends up working like a mounting bracket as well. Just something to consider for the next install, Im sure you'll make this setup quite safe and acceptable. The copper setup would have been smaller and much easier to do so however. Keep us updated. [/QUOTE]

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