Hello Everyone,
I'm in the process of ordering everything for my first solar install. I'm a DIY kinda guy so I'm doing nearly everything myself. A year or so ago, I had the generator that came with my house replaced. It was a "half house" and I upgraded to a "whole house." The main difference is the original was 14kw and serviced a panel with an ATS in it, the new one is 24kW and has an ATS at my meter base. I've been planing my wire paths and controlling the generator with my inverter. I downloaded generacs guide to figure out the wiring and noticed they had the ground and neutral bonded in the panel with a note that it could be removed depending on your install.
My primary panel was supposed to be my only G-N bond so I opened the ATS panel to find the factory installed G-N bond in place. I obviously want to fix this but where do I remove the bond from? I think I'd like to keep it in my main panel because that's what I've seen most diagrams show. Even the Sol-Ark diagram I'm following shows the bond at the main panel. I've read that it should be close to the main power source. In that case, the ATS would be ahead of the inverter and my main panel would be the first thing after.
So, what's the right way to fix this?
Thanks!
I'm in the process of ordering everything for my first solar install. I'm a DIY kinda guy so I'm doing nearly everything myself. A year or so ago, I had the generator that came with my house replaced. It was a "half house" and I upgraded to a "whole house." The main difference is the original was 14kw and serviced a panel with an ATS in it, the new one is 24kW and has an ATS at my meter base. I've been planing my wire paths and controlling the generator with my inverter. I downloaded generacs guide to figure out the wiring and noticed they had the ground and neutral bonded in the panel with a note that it could be removed depending on your install.
My primary panel was supposed to be my only G-N bond so I opened the ATS panel to find the factory installed G-N bond in place. I obviously want to fix this but where do I remove the bond from? I think I'd like to keep it in my main panel because that's what I've seen most diagrams show. Even the Sol-Ark diagram I'm following shows the bond at the main panel. I've read that it should be close to the main power source. In that case, the ATS would be ahead of the inverter and my main panel would be the first thing after.
So, what's the right way to fix this?
Thanks!