I am beginning to take my project full scale, and that involves a 100a 12v power supply.
I am using a server supply, and plan to solder and screw some lugs to the pcb places.
My plan was to take two #6 cables for positive and two #6 cabled for negative and connect those to screw terminals, and from there connect 16 gauge wires to feed some led strips.
My issue is that finding terminals that can accept 6gauge in a few lugs and 16 guuge in another seems difficult...
I don't want to solder the 16 guage sites right to the power supply... Seems messy.
How many boards, how many amps per board? You might want to consider DC-DC converters
per board and distribute power at 48V (or even mains) with much thinner wires... No voltage
drop due to the wiring as the DC-DC converters regulate at the point-of-load.
I am powering led strips, so the power will go to the strips directly. no boards. The PCB places are on the power supply. It has two "blades" made from copper coated PCB as the 12v out.
Take the heavy wires from the supply to heavy duty terminals on a bracket mounted on the supply. If you have 2 positive and 2 negative you can simply plug into them.
Reduce the lengths of the cables if you can - the supply should be close enough to
run direct wire pairs to every strip from it - if you have a shared section of wiring you'll
get one strip affecting others which you probably don't want.
