Grounding solar panels on roof

I am Installing A off grid power system .
I have 15 295 watt panels on the roof , my question is , should I ground my steal Wood stove chimney with the solar panels to ground .
I’m not in a big Lightning Area but the chimney is 3’ away from the top part of my solar array .
I’ve fixed a few brick chimineys that got hit buy litghtning it was not good .
I couldn’t imagine lightning shooting through my ceiling and bouncing around my living room .
What do you think
I have 15 295 watt panels on the roof , my question is , should I ground my steal Wood stove chimney with the solar panels to ground .
I’m not in a big Lightning Area but the chimney is 3’ away from the top part of my solar array .
I’ve fixed a few brick chimineys that got hit buy litghtning it was not good .
I couldn’t imagine lightning shooting through my ceiling and bouncing around my living room .
What do you think
Out back flex power one with out back 3648 inverter fm80 charge controler flex net mate 16 gc215 battery’s 4425 Watts solar .
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|| Midnight Classic 200 | 10, Evergreen 200w in a 160VOC array ||
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From what I understand having more than one grounding rod may trip the GFI in your inverter so if you insist on using 2 grounding rods close together you should tie them together.
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21 SW280 panels on Schletter ground mount
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Since soil has resistance just like any other conductor, earth ground connections are not at zero volts, with respect to each other or any other mystical or absolute reference point. Code allows the resistance to earth (measured with special techniques) of a residential ground rod to be as high as 25 S. It is far too high to trip the circuit breaker under fault conditions in the dangerous hookup of two ground rods (claimed to be a quieter equipment ground). The soil resistance between separate ground rods can also allow thousands of volts to develop between them if lightning strike current should actually flow in one of them. This can seriously damage a computer modem, for example, if it straddles a computer (grounded via its power cord to the utility ground rod) and a telephone line protected via a separate ground rod. [3] For this reason, other protective ground connections (telephone, CATV, etc.) should be made to the same rod used for utility power, if at all possible. If multiple ground rods are used, Code requires that they all must be bonded to the main utility power grounding electrode.
|| Midnight Classic 200 | 10, Evergreen 200w in a 160VOC array ||
|| VEC1093 12V Charger | Maha C401 aa/aaa Charger | SureSine | Sunsaver MPPT 15A
solar: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Solar
gen: http://tinyurl.com/LMR-Lister ,
I only have one ground rod
Bill