Wanted: Railroad-related electrical item - terminal blocks

By Steve McCollum; posted November 27, 2009

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I need several of these railroad-style wire terminal blocks for a project I'm working on. These are not the double-row style that are used for surge arrestors. These can usually be found on scrap KP-style relay racks, or to terminate power wiring.

I'm looking for ones that have 8 or more of the posts per block. They seem to come from the factory with 6 or 12 posts in catalogs I have seen. For example, visit: http://www.lwind.com/terminal_blocks.html.

I'm building a termination panel for several strings of 48 volt batteries that will power one of my inverters. I will use two closely-spaced rows of these blocks to terminate some two-hole lugs leading to the batteries. Then other blocks will terminate fuses.

Has anybody out there got some of these that they'd be willing to sell at a reasonable cost?

Thanks!

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