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Sorry i havent been on in awhile, but i ended up ditching the bonding across the neutrals and run it as advised in the manual. Havent had issues with either but i don't like the idea of current going through the neutral into the output side.

Bump. I surprised not more members used their systems?

Update on this systems performance in the texas winter blackouts. I will be making big updates to this system soon. https://diysolarforum.com/threads/texas-southern-2021-winter-power-outage-mega-thread-experiences-system-tweaks-welcome.18637/#post-215810 Idk if i should make a new thread or...

So my experience was in the southern US. My setup is in my signature and hasn't changed much since the build. However, it definitely will be beefed up after this winter blast. I had no power for 36ish hours and rolling blackouts for the remaining 3 days. We ran generator power at night and...

After the Texas state wide power outages, I figured a mega-thread discussing how well our PV systems and backup battery banks fared. Pictures, experiences and knowledge learned would be of great help to the forum as well as the holes found in our systems. Which i did find quite a few holes in...

Lv5048 does not have ground fault protection on its solar inputs. Youll need a GFDI breaker for the DC solar inputs. Its also not bonded. As a work around i bonded the neutrals on the output and input using a jumper to fix this issue.

Sounds like too many amps through the breaker.

Here is something i just considered. Are you running any loads directly from the gen? (As in plugged into it) Or is this gen only being used to feed the lv5048? Because a simplier solution would be to unbond the generator, only bond the AC output panel and carry the neutral jumper internally in...

If your generator is bonded, the AC input panel should NOT be bonded. Make sure you still run the 4 wires from the gen to your input panel though. Generator should be bonded, lv5048 Neutrals connected internally, and the output panel of the lv5048 should be bonded. This way if the lv5048...

It was discussed here. https://diysolarforum.com/threads/mpp-solar-lv5048-bonding-grounding-question.8955/#post-110961 Turns out a good solution for bonding.

I would make sure your generator is bonded internally and then do this neutral jumper in the lv5048 continue its bonding down the line.

Im not an electrician, but i can only tell you how it was setup for me. The principle is that current always wants to return to the source it comes from. It can take multiple parallel paths to do so. You bond the neutral and ground on the output side so that if there is a ground fault in any...

Well Im using mpp units, so im not totally code accurate anyway. There is buildings with 80s AL wiring still operating just fine. Staying safe is relative.

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Wow. Id go for the mpp solar units then