I have small portable setup, to be used incase of outage. I've been trying my best to learn how grounding and earthing works and if that applies to this small setup. Browsed the forums and watched a ton of youtube trying to sort this out. Maybe I'm just slow, but I still can't figure out what to do here.
I've simplified my setup in the attached image, skipping all the breakers and fuses, just to focus on the grounding issue.
I've got a solar charge controller, an inverter mounted on a wooden board, and a standalone battery, which I can carry inside my house incase I need to connect my router, charge my laptop or phone. It's then all connected straight to the inverter.
Everything is working just fine. But the grounding issue bothers me. Should I connect the solar charge controller and inverter to a ground rod or something similar? They both have a tiny ground lug on the chassi. Or it it safe to keep on using in the way I am without ground? The manuals of SCC and inverter doesn't really tell me much about this.
I've simplified my setup in the attached image, skipping all the breakers and fuses, just to focus on the grounding issue.
I've got a solar charge controller, an inverter mounted on a wooden board, and a standalone battery, which I can carry inside my house incase I need to connect my router, charge my laptop or phone. It's then all connected straight to the inverter.
Everything is working just fine. But the grounding issue bothers me. Should I connect the solar charge controller and inverter to a ground rod or something similar? They both have a tiny ground lug on the chassi. Or it it safe to keep on using in the way I am without ground? The manuals of SCC and inverter doesn't really tell me much about this.