Gold Plated Bus Plugs
Once in a while, we get very confusing calls. The confusion may be no one’s fault. Just two people talking really fast and not realizing they are discussion totally different things. These calls don’t last long, but they can be pretty funny while they do. For example, in one case the call wasn’t for a used bus plug but for using gold plated bus plugs. The conversation was extremely confusing. The customer was referring to horizontal and vertical mounted bus plugs, surface mounted bus plugs, and cable plug type. They discussed temperature ranges and then morphed into new universal bus plugs, which we never heard of. And we’ve heard of them all. The confusion went on as the customer talked about paralleling and dual stacking. We thought we were on the right track when they spoke of contact resistance and snap in place connection. The whole conversation took less the 90 seconds and was turning into total nonsense. They didn’t have a manufacturer or catalog number, just a verbal description. When they brought up gold plating, we knew their bus plugs were not the same as ours. Because we both were using general words, the specifics that would have tipped us off never came up. A fast conversation between two people talking about totally different things. They were talking about new universal bus plugs and sockets for computer type connections, 30 volt, 1 amp devices. We were thinking of 480 volt, 200, 400, or even 600 amp devices for large power distribution. We call this brain lock. You had to be there.