Good day, i got called out to a victron installation with the following happening:
The main switch of the home is a three phase earth leakage. the input to the inverter is on the line side of the earth leakage which is correct. the output side feeds to a sub main switch with an earth leakage feeding the plugs in the property as per regulations. but when the Grid goes down and switches to the inverter, the three phase earth leakage trips out and has to be switched on again by hand. There is a surge protections device installed on the AC side of the inverter and the PV panels also has an earth that is connected to the same surge AC surge protection device as no DC surge protection was installed. when i disconnect the earth from the solar panels, the tripping problem goes away. My question is, will the installation of a DC surge protection device for the solar panels stop the earth leakage from tripping or not? as the DC earth and AC earth still has to be bonded together anyway?
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