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Originally Posted by xelasnave
So may I suggest some sort of lightening rod on your new turbine☺.
Alex
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You certainly may. In fact I'm ahead of you on this one since we are no strangers to wild storms up here. Each of the 4 sets of guy wires is separately grounded and the main pole also so there are 5 ground points on the tower alone. And another one on the battery/inverter shed.
But it's a good point you raise. I'm not sure just how much good these ground rod things do against a determined bolt of lightning. But grounding charge controllers and inverters is an important consideration. I wonder if anyone in the IIS community knows the ins and outs of earthing/grounding these sorts of installations.
My inverter, for example, is a 2000 Watt PS Wave EBay job that does not even have a ground point on it.
I'm hoping that if I tie the negative pole on the battery bank to earth/ground will serve the same purpose for all the bits and pieces that are connected to it one way or another. Anyone know otherwise? I think I'll start a new thread just on this.
Peter