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Old 10-09-2013, 08:49 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by windmist View Post
After reading this I checked my inverter and, surprise, no ground wire. I assume I should run this wire to the electrical panel where the other green wires go. Correct?

Ron
Check your manual carefully. Sometimes the inverter ground goes to the DC ground. My inverter grounds with a 2 gauge wire that way. All inverters probably don't work the same way. If you wire it up wrong you can back feed it and ruin the inverter. My inverter powered circuits do not have the neutral connect to the common bus. The neutral goes back to the inverter and the ground from the inverter to the DC ground. Sounds weird, but it works.

I say again, read your manual carefully. Don't fry yourself or the inverter.
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