How To Ground A Solar Panel

This section of the solar panel installation guide will outline how to plan your wiring run ground your system and install a backfeed breaker to connect to the utility grid if needed.

How to ground a solar panel. This double grounding will ensure that even if something were to go wrong with the grounding at the inverter level your solar panels will remain safe. The soil tends to stay moist the deeper you go due to reduced evaporation. I m using a 6 gauge strande. Not all ground mounted solar panel systems are created equal.

Some standard ground mounted solar panel systems can be manually adjusted a few times a year to account for seasonal shifts of the sun. The connection from chasis grounds to the earth or system ground should be done by copper wire and ground lugs with bonding wires or self tapping screws as required. Each grounding pipe should be around 8 feet deep but no less than 6 feet. Earth grounding is the way to help protect.

Here s how we ground our solar water pump systems. Standard ground mounts use metal framing driven into the ground to hold your solar panels up at a fixed angle. Therefore one should drive multiple pipes deep into the ground surround them with rock salt and moisten the area. The national electrical code nec requires bonding electrically conductive materials and equipment to establish an effective ground fault current path.

In general bonding a piece of equipment means connecting it to an equipment grounding conductor egc that is bonded to the overall grounding electrode system. Snapnrack uses grounding lugs that are installed throughout each string of the system to act as a protector for each panel in that string. Drive a grounding rod at least 8 feet deep into the earth near the system. There are two basic types of ground mounted solar panel systems.

Your solar power needs to be grounded to help protect the components from power surge and lightening protection. The electrical ground on the other hand can simply be made by connecting the grounded conductor to the earth or system ground. Leave around 6 above ground to properly attach your copper wire to the grounding rod. For outdoor grounding you need to use thick bare copper wire that can.