Hi all,
New here and been reading through lots of great content. On the topic of off-grid grounding, I went down the rabbit hole and now a little confused.
I currently live in an area where we experience regular power outages. Bought a small honda generator and installed a 1-circuit transfer switch so I could feed power to one 15 amp circuit in the house during power outages. Works great and now would like to expand on it a little. I'd like to have the option to feed that one 15 amp circuit from either the generator or solar. Started putting together a small, backup solar setup which I will house the batteries and components in a small barn behind our house. I'm just wondering about grounding for the panels, charge controller and inverter. Lightning in my area is very rare so don't really know if I even need to address that. I was hoping not to have to drive a new grounding rod for the purpose of grounding this small setup. I'm about 25 feet from the main houses panel to access the homes grounding connection. Since my system does not involve a vehicle chassis and the nearest grounding connection is 25 feet or so, do I just hook up the negative side of the battery to neg bus, run my grounds to that bus and call it a day? Of course I do know about fusing the SCC and the inverter connections, but is there another path to properly grounding a small backup system like this? Appreciate the help.
New here and been reading through lots of great content. On the topic of off-grid grounding, I went down the rabbit hole and now a little confused.
I currently live in an area where we experience regular power outages. Bought a small honda generator and installed a 1-circuit transfer switch so I could feed power to one 15 amp circuit in the house during power outages. Works great and now would like to expand on it a little. I'd like to have the option to feed that one 15 amp circuit from either the generator or solar. Started putting together a small, backup solar setup which I will house the batteries and components in a small barn behind our house. I'm just wondering about grounding for the panels, charge controller and inverter. Lightning in my area is very rare so don't really know if I even need to address that. I was hoping not to have to drive a new grounding rod for the purpose of grounding this small setup. I'm about 25 feet from the main houses panel to access the homes grounding connection. Since my system does not involve a vehicle chassis and the nearest grounding connection is 25 feet or so, do I just hook up the negative side of the battery to neg bus, run my grounds to that bus and call it a day? Of course I do know about fusing the SCC and the inverter connections, but is there another path to properly grounding a small backup system like this? Appreciate the help.