Any One shed any light on wiring in an inverter. I have a lead from the Anderson plug…obviously positive and negative to back of the inverter. There is also a small butterfly nut on the back panel, marked with an earth symbol. Do I need to run a wire from this to an earth somewhere?
Have same on mine but ignored it, seem to remember reading something with a reason for not using it.
OK Cheers. Someone just told me not to bother, and it seems ok
The earth terminal on the inverter is an earth in the true household electrical term of the word - It goes to the ground/earth. It doesn’t go to the earth (negative) terminal on your batteries. If your (metal cased) appliance got a loose wire inside it could make the casing live - time for electrocution. If you were H&S mad, then technically you should be stabbing a metal stake in the ground with a wire connected to that terminal to prevent such danger, but in reality its not exactly practical.
Cheers Semtex