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Spehro Pefhany Spehro Pefhany is offline
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Default Backup inverter Neutral-ground convention?

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:30:33 +0100, "Steve Lusardi"
wrote:

Yes, absolutely. With single phase loads, neutral is active and I must point
out again, do not connect neutral to the inverter chassis. The inverter
internally will connect safety earth to the inverter chassis. Do not tie
multple inverters together unless they can be synchronized and they must be
designed to do that. If you intend to power a common load with two
inverters, they cannot do this together. It is one or the other.
Steve


Why not tie neutral to the inverter chassis ? That's effectively the
same thing as having ground at the source. In this case a literal
ground will be located (hopefully) well away from the inverters, so
chassis is as close as we got.

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Spehro Pefhany
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