victron safety alert

[Gibbo]

Just to be clear on this............

 

In order to comply with CE requirements, inverters and generators do not have to have neutral and earth bonded. The CE Standards that cover inverters and generator do not make neutral-earth bonding mandatory. Therefore the manufacturers of inverters are quite within their legal rights to leave neutral and earth unbonded. Indeed many other markets prefer it that way.

 

Lots of people here will counter argue "but they go on boats" (not looking past their own blinkers) and I would counter argue that A. it is irrelevant to what the law says and B. the boat market is a miniscule, commercially irrelevant market as far as inverter manufacturers are concerned.

 

The only European Standard that ends up (as a byproduct of required tests) needing neutral-earth bonding is the Recreational Craft Directive for boats. Nothing else, anywhere, in any CE Standards requires neutral-earth bonding.

 

This is not to say that I don't consider neutral-earth bonding in conjunction with an RCD (Residual Current.......... not Recreational Craft.......) to be the safer option. Because I do.

 

Gibbo