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I have got some ideas from they guy selling some high tech solar/battery/grid UPS on ebay. The enclaosed image is just part of his system. He states on his stickers: Caution - when AC out is inverter supplied earth and neutral are bonded. He has 2 HS1-25 relays. I think he uses one to...

Just one other question, do people think I should dump my change over switch, and just get a big relay instead. So just the action of plugging it into shore power switches it over automatically? In theory, the relay will change over quicker than the mechanical din rail change over switch...

Hi all again I just thought, the shore power might not come from a mains hookup from the grid, it might come from a petrol generator. So I am not sure how the earth works on that either. Maybe I need a special mails cable (JUST) for my petrol generator with the earth and neutral connected...

Hello all I have bought 2 din rail consumer boards for my motorhome. One for mains and one for dc. The mains one has 2 rcd’s and a change over switch to switch between shore mains and inverter mains. Live and neutral are both switched. One rcd is for inverter power, one rcd is for shore...

This is an image of the previous owners control system

It could be true that as little as 5% of the panel is duff and high impedance..

Hi all binky and his comments/suspicions are all correct The panel was replaced by the installer and I bought the duff one that was rejected. Also, again correct by binky there is a patch of slight discolouration that is visually not that bad. If I got a piece of cardboard I could work out...

Hello all I have a Lg neon 2 black solar panel. I bought it second hand knowing it was faulty - quite cheap. The seller told me it was down on power by about a third. There is a plastic box on the back with some diodes in it. There are 3 panels in series connected in series with diodes...