Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread William Miller
Keith: I believe it is rare that a PE stamp is required. A well laid out calc. sheet should allow a moderately trained plan checker to follow along. I am in favor of strict standards. It seem there is a school of thought that says this is not feasible. I hope not. here's an analogy: As

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread Keith Cronin
y are overwhelmed with permit applications and the workload seems to have them approving things that we seem deserves more attention Aloha Keith From: William Miller To: RE-wrenches Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 3:02:19 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] electrica

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Frye
Frankly, I hate to say how much I enjoyed the last inspector I was working with. Everytime he came out it was "I will be retiring in 40 weeks." "Just 30 weeks until I retire." And so on. It was always nice talking with him, and he never took more than one glance at the work. It didn't cost me anyth

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread Nick Soleil
nches Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 6:02:19 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements Nick: Rhetorical questions to follow: If you do not provide string calculations, how do you verify that Voc will not exceed NEC limits? How do you verify DC feeder ampacities? Does your jurisdictio

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread William Miller
Nick: Rhetorical questions to follow: If you do not provide string calculations, how do you verify that Voc will not exceed NEC limits? How do you verify DC feeder ampacities? Does your jurisdiction not verify such parameters? We know you have a handle on these factors, but how about the

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread Bill Brooks
www.solarabcs.org/permitting Check it out. From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Nick Soleil Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:01 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements Hi Jeff

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread Nick Soleil
38 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements Jeff: Good point made here. We too became concerned about lax enforcement some years ago. We started inviting ourselves to the Building Inspector trade group meetings. We submitted a permit application check list to the

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread William Miller
Jeff: Good point made here. We too became concerned about lax enforcement some years ago. We started inviting ourselves to the Building Inspector trade group meetings. We submitted a permit application check list to the local jurisdictions. It sat on desks for a while, but eventually the l

Re: [RE-wrenches] electrical permit requirements

2010-06-15 Thread Jeff Yago
Well, this should start up a fire storm.   I will not mention the county or state as we do work in many other areas, but today I stopped by a county building permit office to apply for a permit to install a grid-tie solar system that includes battery backup and generator, which we are adding to an