Good day,
I was asked to inspect the AC side of a solar installation for correctness and issue a COC afterward.
Now I have a few questions about the work being done, these solar guys are really clever, pity that they know so little about electricity.
Just want to ask if one can use a 4-core swa cable with a separate earth wire, green and gold, for a supply and a return between your main db and your inverter db?
If you have more than one inverter installed, must you have a separate breaker for each inverter? And must you have a main breaker before the inverter breakers so that you can isolate the input to the whole DB?
On the other side of the inverter, I guess the same rule applies on that side, a breaker for each inverter and a main breaker after the inverter breakers so that you can isolate the output from the whole DB?
At the changeover must there be an Eskom breaker and an Inverter breaker next to the changeover or can the supply that goes into the changeover comes directly from the Eskom and Inverter main breakers?
The Eskom power goes to the one db and then to the inverter and from the inverter to the inverter db and from there to the changeover.
What would you recommend? At least I know stuffing as much as possible black wires into one breaker is not legal.
Also cutting the white earth wire off from the Eskom main cable is a no-no and bypassing the Main breaker in the kiosk outside is not a good practice.
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