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AWG for Phoenix 12/1200 neutral- ground?

I’ve just mounted the inverter in my sailboat and am looking for the correct size cable for the neutral- ground bond. I’ve read that neutral should be 1 size down from the battery cables. But my Phoenix came with 25mm2 cable with no AWG indicated. What size cable should use?

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Mike Dorsett answered ·

For the Neutral ground link, this should be of suitable size for the fault current expected to flow through it. For a 1200W inverter this would be 10A for a 120V system, this would be 10 or 11AWG. Whilst the inverter has a higher peak power, a short would give a transient fault - cleared by the breaker in the live output, or the inverter shutting down on overload. Batery curent would not flow through this link.

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