If you experience a large amount of lightening storms in your area failure to ground your solar system could result in damages to your product.
Positive ground solar panels.
There are three main reasons for grounding in an off grid power system.
Whether you re looking to install solar on pitched roofs flat roofs shingle metal tile or ground mounted solar panels positive energy solar has you covered.
Safety v oltage transients and t h e sheer fact that they are required for some loads.
If lightning were to strike the solar panels outside the electric current may go into the panel grounding system if you are lucky or it may travel along the positive and negative wires going back to the inverter inside your house.
How to ground solar panels the importance of grounding.
No idea but i do know that my pv system is not grounded at all at the panels it uses a transformerless inverter which gives no galvanic isolation between the mains and the panels so both groups of panels are floating.
But before we address each of these it s important to understand the actual definition of ground.
There are two types of ground.
At 20 these are a good value for a stand alone solar charge controller though for another 5 i would recommend getting the more common negative ground version of this model.
I ended up with a positive ground solar charge controller.
Once there it could arc again to the house wiring and use its grounding system instead.
The slide in camper has a chassis ground common to all the interior and clearance lights.
I have it all setup to charge the house battery and have my loads set up through a fuse block on the load pins of the controller.
Not a problem as long as.
When you re installing a solar panel system it is extremely important to ground your solar arrays and your equipment.
I am also powering some clearance lights with the truck trailer plug.