Assembly in Action: Nuts Help Attach Power-Cable Termination
According to Cableco Technologies Corp. (Dublin, CA), the need to specify and use larger wires can be bypassed by using its FusionLug power-cable termination. The product delivers a current rating equal to the size of the wire. For attaching the termination to the board, a customized version of FusionLug comes complete with two steel nuts already installed. The fasteners are PEM (Type S) self-clinching nuts from PEM Fastening Systems (Danboro, PA). Among other benefits, the nuts reduce the amount of mounting hardware needed to connect the power supply to the board.
This custom system features FusionLugs on two cables. Each conducts 5 volts of power at 60 amps. Cableco fabricates the product from the stranded ends of the cable wire, which allows for multiple wire terminations. More than 100 wires can be terminated together in any one application.