I am also powering some clearance lights with the truck trailer plug.
Positive ground solar panels.
At 20 these are a good value for a stand alone solar charge controller though for another 5 i would recommend getting the more common negative ground version of this model.
When you re installing a solar panel system it is extremely important to ground your solar arrays and your equipment.
But before we address each of these it s important to understand the actual definition of ground.
I have it all setup to charge the house battery and have my loads set up through a fuse block on the load pins of the controller.
Not a problem as long as.
If lightning were to strike the solar panels outside the electric current may go into the panel grounding system if you are lucky or it may travel along the positive and negative wires going back to the inverter inside your house.
The slide in camper has a chassis ground common to all the interior and clearance lights.
Each solar panel system installed is custom to your home and your energy needs.
Positive ground is a bit cheaper to manufacture cheaper and small mosfets apparently but this benefit is outweighed by other potential issues if connected to a trailer.
I ended up with a positive ground solar charge controller.
Once there it could arc again to the house wiring and use its grounding system instead.
There are two types of ground.
If you experience a large amount of lightening storms in your area failure to ground your solar system could result in damages to your product.
Chassis or mechanical and electrical.
How to ground solar panels the importance of grounding.
Whether you re looking to install solar on pitched roofs flat roofs shingle metal tile or ground mounted solar panels positive energy solar has you covered.