How do I ground an inverter?

Whilst it does not make sense to me but it says if you cannot ground to the ground outside you ground it to the body of the vehicle.

Honky

Are you talking about the 240Volt side or the 12Volt side? A basic answer is: The 12 Volt side just connects to your battery via the +ve and -ve leads. As for the 240Volt side, just plug your appliance in and use it. Good quality appliances and inverters are double insulated and don't have any connection for grounding and are fused.. Old style inverters did have a ground connection point. The only way you could do that in practice, was drive an earth stake into the ground, then connect an earth wire to the stake and the inverter.... not very practical..! In any case, driving an earth stake into the ground didn't always guarantee that you had a good earth.Does that answer your question?

I am not a qualified electrician but I believe that 240 volt inverters when fitted to any vehicle should be mounted above earth, that is not earthed to any part of the body of the vehicle. The reason given to me from an electrician was that if a fault should occur within the inverter it could render the whole vehicle live.

Hi Garbage, in a vehicle situation there is no need to earth (ground) the inverter.
Some inverters have an earth post, but I was told by an engineer this is mainly for marine use.

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No, don't earth it.
Earthing means connecting one output wire to either an earth stake or the chassis or both.
Earthing an inverter output increases the risk of electrocution.

If it's earthed and you touch the wrong (hot) wire, your muscles might respond violently under 'un'favourable conditions.

If it's not grounded you only can get zapped if you touch both wires at the same time (which is true for grounded as well of course). If you only touch one of either wire, nothing will happen to you.

Earthing only is good for distribution grids because it ties the system to earth potential. If this wasn't done, active and neutral could both 'float' to unpredictable voltage levels due to atmospheric charges accumulating in the overhead wires.

Best of luck, mr.batteryvalue

I would strongly suggest you don't use an inverter in the car whilst travelling. In the event of an accident it is possible that occupants of your vehicle may be electrocuted (remember it's 240 volts) worse still anyone coming to your aid in such situation (emergency workers etc) are also likely to be exposed to 240 volts. How would you cope if one of your kids was trapped in the car, smoke and flames are staring to appear and no one will go anywhere near the vehicle because they can see 240 volts arcing against debris etc. and they consider it too dangerous to intervene !!

Why would you even need 240 volts in a car.

I have several 6 mm wires running up to 10 cig sockets and can run anything

from laptop to the space station ( well almost)

Drop a drink into 240 volt and you may well light up your life.

You can use a CONVERTER for the lappy and everything else is available in 12

volts anyway.

Safety first Think laterally,you dont need 240 volts.