PCB high current bars

Eldre makes custom busbars. I believe Wiedmuller has a standard product line. The cost of the custom bars is usually not expensive. If you are doing a low volume design you could parallel your traces with bus-wire.

(* jcl *)

Is this a Tectrol supply you're fiddling with?

RL

Its a "Power Jack" PI-1200 1200Watt pure sine wave power inverter that a friend of mine reverse engineered. Is it legal to post schematics and pics of a reverse engineered commercial product? :)

cheers, Jamie

Yes and no.

Google for "board stiffeners"

Publishing your own original photographs or schematics isn't actionable, unless they duplicate copyrighted material, in effect. The use of patented intellectual property is another issue.

Modifying hardware one time for a specific purpose doesn't really matter, as you've paid your nickel for the part and have voided all warrantees or safety liabilities, subsequent to opening the case. Obtaining sufficient understanding of it's function to do this competently does indeed involve a degree of reverse engineering ( though nobody issues such a degree......... ).

The development and use of wave-solderable bussbars of your own design and configuration is not actionable, as the idea is no longer patentable, though specific applications for not-immediately-obvious or indirectly related purposes are.

RL

In most of the world, once you sell something you can't patent it. In the US, you have a year to patent it after selling it or otherwise disclosing it. IANAL but I would expect that it would be copyright you'd have to worry about...selling you a power supply doesn't necessarily give you the right to post the schematic on the Internet any more than buying a book gives you the right to sell copies of it.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs