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| posted on January 2nd, 2005 at 09:17 PM |
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Inverter Question...
Just got a quick question. Unlike my previous inverter this one has a earth ground on it. Just wondering if that is ment to be grounded to the chasis
or somthing else???
[Edited on 2/1/05 by Davecho]
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| posted on January 4th, 2005 at 06:17 AM |
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you would have to open it up and check the internal wiring to know what this is meant to be connected to.
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| posted on January 4th, 2005 at 06:23 AM |
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Yes, negative earth. You connect both the main terminals with a big wire direct to battery and the other earth to chassis.
Seems a bit unusual to have that but it's for safety im guessing.
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 posted on January 4th, 2005 at 03:30 PM |
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did not include any :|
i thought to the chasis but wanted to double check
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| posted on January 4th, 2005 at 03:41 PM |
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They probably included that earth because some people may mount the inverter onto an mdf panel or something insulated and this way the casing is not
actually earthed to the metal of the car.
Use a big, hairy arsed fuse as well for safety like the ones the habibs use on their mega watt stereo systems. The inverter itself probably has one
anyway.
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| posted on January 4th, 2005 at 08:03 PM |
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okies will do 
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 posted on January 5th, 2005 at 01:30 AM |
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Voltages are Floating in the inverter....**
It seems unusual, but the inverter could be used in a Positive earth system, in which case, [no pun intended] the earth would be positive...
The Positive & Negative in the inverter are floating and insulated from the case...
It May stop some electrical interference if the case is earthed... Negative or Positive it doesn't matter....
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