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You can isolate the neural bar and ground the equipment grounding system
to a grounding electrode. <br><br>
At 06:46 PM 6/11/2016, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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).<br><br>
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....<br><br>
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Travis Jordan
<<a href="mailto:travis@jordansolar.net">travis@jordansolar.net</a>
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<dd>Just a thought, but some of the old or cheap 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. <br><br>
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