Confirming converter wiring

sambarone4202
sambarone4202 Member Posts: 5
in Battery/Electrical & Solar
I need to confirm that both the grounding lug AND the negative lug on a stand-alone deck mounted converter can connect to the floor mounted bar connector with all of the other white wires connected to it. Background: the converter section ONLY of my 2022 Tab 320S WFCO wf-8735-ad power center fried, and i am working around that issue by tying in a (better) standalone converter. The photo shows the positive cables I plan to pigtail into, and the white wire bar connector I’m thinking of for the ground AND negative. Am I thinking correctly? Wasn’t sure if I needed to somehow open the power center and connect wires from the standalone’s negative and/or grounding lugs inside, or if an external connection to the strip would work and be safe. Thanks.
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  • sambarone4202
    sambarone4202 Member Posts: 5

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  • Grumpy_G
    Grumpy_G Member Posts: 711
    edited March 23
    I'm not an electrician but as I understand it is frowned upon to have multiple ground to neutral connections. Typically ground and neutral are connected in the main panel, if there is another connection between the two the ground wire may carry part of the current that should only be in the neutral wire. 
    The converter is wired right after the main breaker in the power center, no idea what these red wired connect to. I'd open up the power center, remove the old converter and connect the new one the same way as the old one. 
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  • sambarone4202
    sambarone4202 Member Posts: 5
    Good advice. I will look for a different path to ground for the new standalone converter. I have confirmed that the pictured red wires are the battery feed to the distribution panel that still functions, the solar panel feed, and the now nonfunctioning feed from the distribution panel that is supposed to charge the battery, I believe.
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