RTL44
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Hi again,
I defer to the expertise of many on here who have guided me so far...
Because I live in Mexico, I don't have as many things available to me as in the U.S. I have found copper bus bars, but they not tinned. Because I live waterfront on the Caribbean Sea, the salt air rusts and corrodes things exponentially faster than in an off-sea location.
My questions is:
Would using a marine grade heat shrink on my bus bars be enough to protect the copper from corrosion, or should I find a way to tin them?
Here is the heat shrink I was planning to use:
I defer to the expertise of many on here who have guided me so far...
Because I live in Mexico, I don't have as many things available to me as in the U.S. I have found copper bus bars, but they not tinned. Because I live waterfront on the Caribbean Sea, the salt air rusts and corrodes things exponentially faster than in an off-sea location.
My questions is:
Would using a marine grade heat shrink on my bus bars be enough to protect the copper from corrosion, or should I find a way to tin them?
Here is the heat shrink I was planning to use:
