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Earth leakage

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I have noticed that after loadshedding and the eskom power comes back then my earth leakage would trip out--I can then reset it and it runs until the next load shedding .

I have a 5kw growatt and a 5.1kw lithium battery coupled to 4x455 canadian panels---My previous inverter ran fine (3kw growatt)--What could the problem be???

 

 

13 minutes ago, zs1ssm said:

I have noticed that after loadshedding and the eskom power comes back then my earth leakage would trip out--I can then reset it and it runs until the next load shedding .

I have a 5kw growatt and a 5.1kw lithium battery coupled to 4x455 canadian panels---My previous inverter ran fine (3kw growatt)--What could the problem be???

 

 

Your wiring must be done wrong, the AC output of your inverter must go to an earth leakage and then feed back to your DB, in other words, AC from the grid direct via a 50 Amp double pole circuit breaker to feed AC to your inverter, the AC output of your inverter feeds the earth leakage back to your DB.

 

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20 hours ago, Antonio de Sa said:

Your wiring must be done wrong, the AC output of your inverter must go to an earth leakage and then feed back to your DB, in other words, AC from the grid direct via a 50 Amp double pole circuit breaker to feed AC to your inverter, the AC output of your inverter feeds the earth leakage back to your DB.

 

That is exactly how it is connected....Found that my bench drill was the one tripping the system even when switched off---The system is running fine now but why only trip if the power from eskom comes back (surge--hi or low voltage) anyhow I installed a surge protector now and will monitor the system----Thanks for the fedback

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