You can isolate the neural bar and ground the
equipment grounding system to a grounding electrode.
At 06:46 PM 6/11/2016, you wrote:
Since you don't name the inverter OEM, I'm just
guessing, but.....the ground to neutral bond
thing can indeed fry what I call "truck top" AKA
"portable" inverters. The puzzling thing in my
experience is it can take 6 months......1
month.....1 week......1 second for the failure.
Or it might work fine (but not be to code).
My rule....to connect to a standard AC load
panel (no matter how small) the inverter has to
have actual hard-wired AC Out terminals...hot,
neutral and ground. If the only way to connect
it to the house AC system is a 120V AC extension
cord with the female end chopped off and hard
wired to the load panel, you are asking for
trouble and have left NEC far behind. I got
well-zapped by one these in the past....
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Travis Jordan
<<mailto:tra...@jordansolar.net>tra...@jordansolar.net> wrote:
Just a thought, but some of the old or cheapÂ
inverters don't take nicely to bonding the
ground to neutral. You may try leaving the
ground wire disconnected from the inverter for a
test and see if that changes anything.... Also
make sure you don't have moisture or a short of
some sort in your output cable to the house, I
got involved with a job once that had normal
Romex buried outside and it got wet and caused
issues with the inverter not working properly.
It ohmed out fine, but when I hooked it up it
didn't play nice with the inverter. I would
suspect something with the site wiring from what
I am understanding from your post.Â
Good luck!
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