It's about time I have lights in my home.

Author	Message
Revlac Guru Joined: 31/12/2016 Location: Australia Posts: 1309	Posted: 09:17am 01 Oct 2025       Hi Ozzy, looks like a good system, still plenty to do........isn't there always!     Quote   Where I live, we get heaps of lightning ground strikes. Yeah its a bit like that here too, we got our share of blown up stuff when we were in the process of getting rid of the grid connection, (Started a thread on it somewhere) since then the neighbour on the south side has had the house hit twice, second time it took out all the appliances, the neighbour on the right, had the underground cable hit (300m along from the box) and shorted, burnt out the 3 phase cable, each conductor was bigger than most welding cable. Don't expect underground cable to be safe from a strike. Your ground mount panel setup looks good, I did one a little stronger bigger pipe and its 12m long with 21 panels, The main cable from each set of solar arrays has an Anderson connector, so Easy to just pull them if we think some lightning is on the way, still have one set of panels that need an Anderson plug (instead of a disconnect switch) before the storms get going.   If you get rats or mice in the ceiling, you might well get the odd python follow them in, can be a surprise.