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Hi, I have a Renogy 1000W inverter, the UK model. It's listed here: https://uk.renogy.com/1000w-12v-to-230v-pure-sine-wave-inverter-with-ups-function/. The instructions for it are very sparse, and make no mention of grounding at all other than to show the grounding pin in the diagram. It does...

Yeah I want to have the peace of mind that it's safe, and also that I understand why it is safe. About the cable sizes, that's one other thing I noticed actually, the ones that came with the Renogy were o.k. but would be undersized slightly based on how I sized my other cables. Already planned...

Hmm what do you mean by suspect? The current must be flowing through the chassis, up the ground wire to the lynx, then via the dedicated wire run straight back to the negative post of the starter battery. I can measure the current with an amp clamp on those wires and see it. If I remove the...

Yeah it's always been grounded to the chassis so I was using the old one in a non-isolated way. But I think wiring the XS combining the negatives is very similar with a nuanced difference. The isolated one transfers power using a transformer so the two sides are completely separate, so even...

Thanks, that's what I thought for hardwiring it. I guess some inverters with actual hardwire AC outputs are designed with doing hardwiring in mind whereas a smaller, cheaper inverter that has a single fixed plug on it is probably designed to be used in a simpler system. But if I'm just adding...

Thanks for the response and yeah it's definitely something I'm taking seriously, I don't want to wire in the inverter until I can be comfortable in my mind that it's safe. I'm starting to kick myself that I didn't buy a more expensive Victron unit, as their documentation and customer support is...

I checked out all the connections today and didn't find any issues. The starter motor was recently replaced so I did wonder if the ground cable hadn't been torqued down properly but it was fine, and the connections to the starter battery were fine as well. I did disconnect them and clean them...

I'm upgrading a Victron Orion 12/12-30 (isolated) charger to the new Orion XS 50A (non-isolated) in a campervan. My house system in the van centers around a Victron Lynx distributor as the main hub, and that is grounded to the chassis. As such I was using the isolated charger in a non-isolated...

Hi all, I have an inverter with a single output socket (and no hardwire outputs), and it has very little information about how it is setup for grounding/bonding. I would like to have a couple of AC outlets run off the inverter so that I don't need to use an extension socket. I've been trying to...

Thanks for the response, it makes sense if the connections to chassis are made well like you say. But then I'm wondering why lots of other diagrams/installs out there seem to also add the dedicated wire then, if it's not really adding anything? I have a 2017 Ford Transit which does have a...

Thanks, yeah the new conductor is definitely being used as a path to ground for the starter motor. The house/leisure battery system is all in the back of the van, and the Orion is very close to the lynx which is then grounded with a short 70mm² to chassis. The van starter batteries are under...

Thanks, yeah it is very ambiguous! Unfortunately I tried to contact Renogy already for over a month, and they have not given me a single response on any channel. Tried through their support ticket system, and multiple emails to various different addresses I found, even the US one to ask for some...

Thanks, that's a good point, I've seen there are some modestly priced RCD testers out there. I think I've decided that the Renogy inverter I have is not designed for the use case I have in mind (i.e. running more than a single appliance) and I don't feel comfortable installing it with the...

The old orion 30A that I replaced was an isolated one, so that had positive and negative from each battery straight into it, and was effectively two separate circuits. So there'd be ~34A flowing on the positive and negative on the input side and ~30A on positive and negative on the output side...

Hmm there's 50A that flows out from the starter battery to the orion, it has to also go back otherwise there isn't a complete circuit. The alternator chargers the starter batteries and the orion takes power from the starter (so indirectly from the alternator) to charge the leisure batteries in...