Grounding Wire via Negative Bus Bar?

[Mikec557]

I'm in the planning stages of installing an inverter with 30a pass through and installing my Victron solar charge controller. Both instruments call for a grounding wire to the chassis.

I have (or soon will have) a negative bus bar near the both of them. It will be fed by a 2ga wire from the battery via a shunt and the bus bar will also have a 2ga wire connection to the chassis.

The grounding wire for the inverter and the solar charge controller is a green insulated 8ga wire.

Is there any reason I can't run the green grounding wire to the negative bus bar? It would seem like make-work to run it clear outside the pass-through while simply following the 2ga grounding wire from the bus bar to the frame. Heck, they'd even both be under the same screw to chassis.

What do you think?

[gbkims]

I'm in the planning stages of installing an inverter with 30a pass through and installing my Victron solar charge controller. Both instruments call for a grounding wire to the chassis.

I have (or soon will have) a negative bus bar near the both of them. It will be fed by a 2ga wire from the battery via a shunt and the bus bar will also have a 2ga wire connection to the chassis.

The grounding wire for the inverter and the solar charge controller is a green insulated 8ga wire.

Is there any reason I can't run the green grounding wire to the negative bus bar? It would seem like make-work to run it clear outside the pass-through while simply following the 2ga grounding wire from the bus bar to the frame. Heck, they'd even both be under the same screw to chassis.

What do you think?

Sounds good.
That's like one of Victron's example drawings.

[Mikec557]

Sounds good.
That's like one of Victron's example drawings.

Wow. And I thought I was being creative. LOL.
Thanks for finding that.

[jmbopp]

I have a small solar setup and a deck-mount converter in the pass through. I replaced the battery to frame ground with 4 ga cable and ran another separate ground line into the hookup center.

[RickLight]

The only possible issue I can see is some form of accidental disconnection from the frame. Fewer junctions, parts and pieces means less chance of failure.