I have a quick poll for everyone- I'm finishing up my design for a

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I have a quick poll for everyone- I’m finishing up my design for a control board and all that is left is deciding how I will be handling the input power terminals. My options are one single tall 24A input terminal, or using two 20A terminals that can be used in parallel if one wants more current. Essentially you could run 40A, however it would mean double the wires for input, just like how RAMPS does it if I remember correctly.

In my mind it makes sense to run two 20A terminals to give some current opportunity, but what do you all think?

Please feel free to vote and comment!

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RAMPS boards do have 2 inputs but they aren’t joined. One goes to “everything” to power the hot end, the motors, through the 5v regulator for the arduino below it and the other input goes straight out through a MOSFET for the heated bed and doesn’t do anything else.

Asside from whether your terminals can handle the current, can the rest of your board handle 40A?

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Most hobbyists can’t realistically handle >10A circuits without messing something up. There’s a big step-up in danger of component failures and fires around that point.