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Busbars may be connected to each other and to electrical apparatus by bolted, clamp, or welded

connections. Often joints between high-current bus sections have matching surfaces that are silver-
plated to reduce the contact resistance. At extra-high voltages (more than 300 kV) in outdoor buses,
corona around the connections becomes a source of radio-frequency interference and power loss,
so connection fittings designed for these voltages are used.
Busbars are typically contained inside switchgear, panel boards, or busway. Distribution boards
split the electrical supply into separate circuits at one location. Busways, or bus ducts, are long
busbars with a protective cover. Rather than branching the main supply at one location, they allow
new circuits to branch off anywhere along the route of the busway.
Advantages
Following are some advantages of Bus bar trunking system over normal cabling system:-
1. On-site installation times are reduced compared to hard-wired systems, thus leading to cost
savings.
2. It provides increased flexibility in design and versatility with regard to future modifications.
3. Greater safety and peace of mind for specifiers, contractors and end-users.
4. Because of the simplicity of busbar, it is easy to estimate costs from the design/estimating stage
through to installation on site. This is because the technical characteristics and price of each
component are always known.
5. It is short sighted to compare the cost of busbar against that of a length of cable — and not the real
cost of a cable installation to include multiple runs of cable, tray and fixing, let alone the protracted
time and effort of pulling cables.
6. Distribution busbar distributes power along its length through tap-off points along the busbar at
typically at 0.5 or 1 m centers. Tap-off units are plugged in along the length of the busbar to supply
a load; this could be a sub distribution board or, in a factory, to individual machines. Tap-offs can
normally be added or removed with busbar live, eliminating production down time.
7. Installed vertically the same systems can be used for rising-mains applications, with tap-offs
feeding individual floors. Certified fire barriers are available at points where the busbar passes
through a floor slab. Protection devices such as fuses, switchfuses or circuit breakers are located
along the busbar run, reducing the need for large distribution boards and the large quantities of
distribution cables running to and from installed equipment.
8. Very compact so provides space savings.
9. Where aesthetics have to be considered, busbar trunking can be installed with natural galvanized,
aluminium, or painted finish. Special colours to match switchboards or a specific colour scheme
are also available on request.
10. Busbar trunking has several key advantages over conventional forms of power distribution
including: -
11. (a) Reduced, onsite installation times when compared to hard-wired systems thus leading to cost
savings.
a. Increased flexibility in design and versatility with regard to future modifications.
b. Increased safety features brought about by the use of high quality, manufactured components,
which provide greater safety and peace of mind for specifies, contractors and end-users.
12. Uneven distribution of current takes place where multiple runs of cables are used in parallel.
13. Busbar trunking has tap-off points at regular intervals along each length to allow power to be taken
off and distributed to where it is needed. Because it is fully self-contained it needs only to be
mechanically mounted and electrically connected to be operational.

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