Joel, Both the documents you sited have gone into the development of the new version, but there are substantial changes (hopefully improvements). The process will look similar to what you have below, but a little simpler. I get rid of many calculations for things like ampacity, since the calculations can be summarized by wire sizes. I think you will like it.
It's tough to develop something that will work nationwide, but I've been working on it for 5 years now and I think we're close. Bill. -----Original Message----- From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Joel Davidson Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:23 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Beat your local AHJ's over the head if youhave to... Hi Bill, Will the standard permit package be the drawings and checklist in the Inspector Guidelines http://www.irecusa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/NationalOutreachPubs/InspectorG uidelines-Version2.1.pdf or the drawing at http://solarabcs.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=137&&; Itemid=72 It would be very useful to have a national standard for permit packages for both residential and commercial PV systems. Something like: Cover Sheet Table of Contents General Description Site Plan Roof Plan One-Line Electrical Diagram Equipment Layout Drawing Wire and Conduit Calculations Component Specifications Sheets. Of course, some projects will require more documentation, but a standardized permit package would eliminate a lot of Building & Safety Departments' ambiguous subjectivity. Best regards, Joel Davidson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Brooks" <billbroo...@yahoo.com> To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Beat your local AHJ's over the head if youhave to... > Ryan and Matt, > > There are significant efforts underway to standardize permitting. Too many > efforts are going on that will cause a proliferation of different ideas, > rather than standardization. The ICC Tri-Chapter document is good, as it > is > based on the SMUD document, but it falls significantly short of providing > standardization. It has the all-encompassing statement, "8) The > installation > of the PV system shall conform to the requirements of CEC Article 690 and > any other applicable articles or standards." That makes this document very > nearly worthless since it is not specific. > > Solar ABCS (URL www.solarabcs.org) has commissioned me to develop an > Expedited Permitting process that brings together the best of what has > been > done up to now. These efforts include not only the ICC Tri-Chapter work, > but > also SolarTech, my Inspector Guidelines, and John Wiles checklist. The > basis > is to have a process whereby a jurisdiction could do an over-the-counter > permit for single-phase, residential-sized, PV systems. This is the real > need in the PV industry. There are similar needs in the SDHW market. > > The draft of this document will be available very soon. It will be going > out > for internal review to a few folks this week. The draft version will be > available for comment within a month. The key to this document is a > standardized electrical diagram. This also makes the process easier to > accommodate an on-line permit submittal process. > > Bill. > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
