<div dir="ltr">Yah Drake, it can be done and I have done that before - in small main panels it involved a plastic shim under the neutral terminal block, and nylon nut/bolt to hold it down, with the EGC connected to GEC and GE on the main panel enclosure. With nice hard-wired small inverters available now (Morningstar SureSine) I don't think I'd ever mess with truck stop inverters wired to a main panel again. Or, just don't wire up the ground from the 120VAC outlet on the front of the portable inverter....that would work too. Ugh.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drake.chamberlin@redwoodalliance.org" target="_blank">drake.chamberlin@redwoodalliance.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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You can isolate the neural bar and ground the equipment grounding system
to a grounding electrode. <br><span class=""><br>
At 06:46 PM 6/11/2016, you wrote:<br>
</span><blockquote type="cite"><span class="">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></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>