Standard and detection of leakage current According to the 7.10.2 regulation of NB32004-2013 standard, in any case where the solar inverter is connected to the AC grid and the AC breaker is turned off, the inverter should provide leak current detection.
Leakage current of the photovoltaic system, which is also known as the square matrix residual current, is essentially a kind of common mode current. The cause is that there is parasitic capacitance between the photovoltaic system and the earth.
And it has an extremely high precision requirement, a special current sensor is required. The photovoltaic standard stipulates that for the detection of photovoltaic leakage current, Type B, that is, a current sensor capable of measuring both AC and DC leakage currents, must be used.
The leakage current of the photovoltaic system has two characteristics: 1. The leakage current is complicated, divided into DC part and AC part; 2. The current secondary value is very small, all in the milliampere level, which requires extremely high accuracy and requires a dedicated current sensor.
This is in accordance with standard EN 62109-1, section 7.3.8. The RCD in the SolarEdge inverter can detect leakage on the DC side. There are 2 trip thresholds for the RCD as required by the DIN VDE 0126-1-1 standard. A low threshold is used to protect against rapid changes in leakage typical of direct contact by people.
Leak current detection should be able to detect the total (including the DC and AC parts) effective value current, continuous residual current. If the continuous residual current exceeds the following limits, the inverter should be disconnected and send a fault signal within 0.3s:
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