help! Clueless wiring question again.

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Still wiring and I hope someone can help me with this. I"m wiring for conventional operation.
I'm beginning to wire rotary switches to the 4 power districts on my modern ZW. I'm not sure how to handle the junction where 1 power district output wire from the ZW splits into 9 outputs to my rotary switches. I went to radio shack and thought a terminal strip was the thing but it didn't look quite right.
I guess I could use a small bus wire, but is this the best way.
Any help would be greatly appreciate cause I'm really bad electrically.

thanks,
Mike S.

[wrmcclellan]

Mike, you can go either way. A terminal strip will require you to run a set of wires or a terminal strip jumper (A stamped metal piece that connects all the termnals down one side of the terminal strip together) to have power available to all the other terminals on the opposite side of the terminal strip.

You could use a piece of bare wire for a bus and solder your drops to the other side.

You can also go to Home Depot and buy ground bus bars for an electrical panel. These are somethimes cheaper than a terminal strip and since it is all metal, you do not need the extra terminal strip jumper.

Radio Shack has the terminal strips and the jumpers.

http://www.radioshack.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2032289&cp=2032058.2032231

8 position terminal strip is Model: 274-670 and the terminal strip jumper is Model: 274-650.

If you look further down the RS link I gave, you will see the various Eurostyle terminal strips. I prefer these to the older barrier style terminal strips as the wire is well secured where with the barrier style you have to add a spade terminal (i.e. RS Model: 64-3128 ).

If you go to this link and look through the photos for the Ground Bus Bar. Home Depot sells these bars for a few dollars each. They work very well for layout power distribution.

http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/elect/panel/breaker/install.htm

Good luck!
Roy

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Now I get it!!!!!!!.
THanks Roy.

Mike S.