Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-31 Thread Bill Brooks
. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:53 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Bill, That is a great point. As it stands, the box ahead of the residence does contain a main breaker. If we get

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-31 Thread Drake Chamberlin
….? Bill. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:13 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area At 03:24 PM 7/30/2008, you wrote: According to the two paragraphs above, the commercial building has two

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-31 Thread Bill Brooks
g from the same service drop-to get all the semantics proper), it is considered a line-side connection. So what is it..? Bill. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:13 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-31 Thread Drake Chamberlin
At 03:24 PM 7/30/2008, you wrote: According to the two paragraphs above, the commercial building has two commercial services??? One will receive PV and one will not?? One service is for the commercial building and one is for the residence. There is one service drop to two meters. Both servi

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread William Miller
Drake: Sorry again, but this is still not clear. Questions below in red (could you draft a block diagram and post it?): At 03:56 PM 7/30/2008, Drake Chamberlin wrote: 2. The commercial building has a service that you will not feed the grid-tie to. Yes. It also has its own service. The c

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread Sky Sims
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jay peltz Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:31 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Hi Drake, do you know how this is all done in say Germany? I realize they have different codes ( hopefully)

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread Drake Chamberlin
At 09:25 AM 7/30/2008, you wrote: Hi Drake, do you know how this is all done in say Germany? I realize they have different codes ( hopefully) but how do they address the main issue of potential bussbar overloading? thanks, jay That is a good question. Drake Chamberlin Athens Electric OH Lic

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread Drake Chamberlin
silenced with test data and good engineering analysis. Bill. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:03 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Kent and Jerry, Thanks for the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread William Miller
ill get raised routinely, and those concerns must be silenced with test data and good engineering analysis. Bill. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:03 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches]

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread jay peltz
Hi Drake, do you know how this is all done in say Germany? I realize they have different codes ( hopefully) but how do they address the main issue of potential bussbar overloading? thanks, jay peltz power On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Drake Chamberlin wrote: Thanks to All who have replied,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-30 Thread Drake Chamberlin
and good engineering analysis. Bill. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:03 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Kent and Jerry, Thanks for the ideas. The idea of a l

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-29 Thread William Miller
m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake Chamberlin Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:03 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Kent and Jerry, Thanks for the ideas. The idea of a label is a good one. Since the building in which the box is located is f

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-28 Thread Bill Brooks
Drake Chamberlin Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:03 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Kent and Jerry, Thanks for the ideas. The idea of a label is a good one. Since the building in which the box is located is fed by a completely separate service, no loads should ever be t

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-28 Thread Drake Chamberlin
Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Drake, The writer's of section 690 haven't covered all of the possible ways to make a safe installation. Or all of the needs for a large system. You should take it up with the AHJ first, but I suspect that it will be approved. After all, the 20% rule (an

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-28 Thread Jerry Caldwell
> To: RE-wrenches Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:49:11 AM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area Drake, The writer's of section 690 haven't covered all of the possible ways to make a safe installation. Or all of the needs for a large system. You should take it up with the AHJ

Re: [RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-27 Thread Kent Osterberg
Drake, The writer's of section 690 haven't covered all of the possible ways to make a safe installation. Or all of the needs for a large system. You should take it up with the AHJ first, but I suspect that it will be approved. After all, the 20% rule (and now with NEC 2008 at the bottom of

[RE-wrenches] Gray code area

2008-07-26 Thread Drake Chamberlin
We are installing a PV system where an electrical contractor left us an easy way to interface with the grid. The contractor does extremely clean work which exceeds NEC requirements, and the local code authorities are very happy with him. What he left us was a 200 A, feed through breaker box t