I'd be leery of using steel as a bus bar, it has a MUCH lower conductivity than copper (only 3% TO 15% as conductive, depending on the alloy), so it would need to be MUCH beefier, plus you'll get localized heating at connection points where there is current concentration (battery bolts, etc.)...
Are the posts from the original DIY Solar Website still available as an archive? (the ones from the first month or so). The link I have comes up as having been terminated. (https://diysolar.forums.net/) If they are saved somewhere, maybe the current link to them could get posted here (or in...
Does anyone else have issues when logged in, in that every so often when you click on a thread, it will open that thread as a guest account, instead of under your logged in user name. Seems to happen to me about every 15-20th time. As a guest, it won't let me reply, and it doesn't mark that...