Re: [RE-wrenches] Square D Disconnects mounted on the slope of the roof.

2013-11-09 Thread William Dorsett
How about Soladeck? They have the din rail for breakers or fuseholders and are clearly for mounting at the roof slope. And they are UL approved. Bill Dorsett Sunwrights From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Mark Drum

Re: [RE-wrenches] Square D Disconnects mounted on the slope of the roof.

2013-11-09 Thread Kirpal Khalsa
Thank you all for the ideas and infoin many parts of Oregon you are required to have a rooftop fireman's disconnectwe have been using a variety of methods...for small residential we are currently using the midnite solar box with the disconnect handle and their 600vdc breaker but this only w

Re: [RE-wrenches] Square D Disconnects mounted on the slope of the roof.

2013-11-09 Thread Bob-O Schultze
Midnight now has a multi-string 600V rooftop disco. Bob-O On Nov 9, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Kirpal Khalsa wrote: Thank you all for the ideas and infoin many parts of Oregon you are required to have a rooftop fireman's disconnectwe have been using a variety of methods...for small residential w

Re: [RE-wrenches] Square D Disconnects mounted on the slope of the roof.

2013-11-09 Thread Drake
A NEMA 3R box can be mounted vertically on a sloping roof by attaching brackets to the sides of the box and leveling the box. The bracket or L-foot can allow the box to swivel to vertical. Emacs! At 09:33 AM 11/8/2013, you wrote: Hi Kirpal, All Square D safety switches are UL tested in the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Square D Disconnects mounted on the slope of the roof.

2013-11-09 Thread Ray Walters
We've made up mounting brackets with unistrut for this purpose as well.  We just bend their regular 45 deg angle brackets to match the roof tilt.  It's a bit of work though, so we are going to other solutions like the Soladek, or just putting the combiner box in a

Re: [RE-wrenches] Square D Disconnects mounted on the slope of the roof.

2013-11-09 Thread Kirpal Khalsa
Drake...we have made mounting brackets to make box vertical before but our customers complained about aesthetics.Hence the search for a parallel to the roof slope mounting box quest..Bob O i will look at the midnite dual pole 600VDC optionThat sounds like what we are looking for Tha

[RE-wrenches] PV GEC

2013-11-09 Thread Wallace W. Weeks
Wrenches, On a recent install I've come across a question I would like to get your thoughts on. In regards to running a GEC on a "separately derived power system", more specifically A single phase 600 v residential PV system with a string inverter. >From my past experience and building from

Re: [RE-wrenches] PV GEC

2013-11-09 Thread William
W: A string inverter does not constitute a separately derived system unless it is transformer isolated. The recreating of the neutral is what creates an SDS. Your GEC, if required, stops at the inverter. It is not always required, i.e. Enphase M250. William Miller > On Nov 9, 2013, at 1:53

Re: [RE-wrenches] PV GEC

2013-11-09 Thread Gary Willett
Wallace: William is correct, a PV System is NOT a SDS. If you're installing a "TL" or transformerless string inverter, a DC GEC from the inverter is NOT required, only a properly sized EGC. With Micro-inverters, if the PV+ or PV- has a ground reference in the micro-inverter, such as an Enpha

[RE-wrenches] DC disco news

2013-11-09 Thread Marco Mangelsdorf
Eaton/Cutler Hammer now has a line of 600V and 1000V disconnects available that make life easier for us. (No, I'm not hyping for Eaton.) When used in max 600V DC applications, you can now use a single disconnect (30A to 400A) to disconnect multiple source circuits, one source circuit per blad