Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
ect: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Would be a good one to ask John Wiles - he has been very responsive to my questions. Glenn Burt ___ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Brian Teitelbaum
o: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof I have not yet visited the site to see, but I would guess that they are feed from the same transformer. If they were, how would that make it OK? Mark Frye Berkeley Solar Electric Systems 303 Redbud Way Ne

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
..@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Hans Frederickson Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:05 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof I don't think you'll find anything in the NEC to prohibit that. NEC 250.52(A)(1) requires you to bond a m

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Hans Frederickson
enches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Mark Frye Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:05 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Or another way to illustrate this problem: There is nothing in the Code that would

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
ttp://www.berkeleysolar.com/> www.berkeleysolar.com _ From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Mark Frye Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:00 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, T

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
Of Dana Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 1:39 PM To: glenn.b...@glbcc.com; 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof If each is separately derived, grounded and properly installed, Why not? Imagine a parking structure centrally located and 2 PV syst

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Dana
enches.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Burt Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:32 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Would be a good one to ask John Wiles - he has been very responsive to my questions. Glenn Burt From: re-wrenches-boun...@l

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Glenn Burt
bject: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof I have a customer who has two separate buildings, a home and a shop. Each dwelling has it's own service. He wants to put in two pv systems, one for each service, but wants all the PV modules to be on the shop roof. Why is mind going

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
com/> www.berkeleysolar.com _ From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Brian Teitelbaum Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:54 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Mark, Ar

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Brian Teitelbaum
PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Thanks Ken, I appreciate the information. But I am still not feeling very confident about this. Yes, you can run a feeder with a EGC from one building with a service to an outbuilding and bond tha

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
onday, April 18, 2011 12:09 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Mark, Separately derived is defined in article 100. Basically, a separately derived system has no common conductors other than possibly equipment ground. By the definition in articl

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Kent Osterberg
lto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Kent Osterberg Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:58 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Mark, NEC 230.2(A) specifically allows two services for parallel power production sources. While a f

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
erg Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:58 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof Mark, NEC 230.2(A) specifically allows two services for parallel power production sources. While a feeder from the house is technically not the same as a service, it should be a

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Kent Osterberg
From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Nick Vida Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:13 AM To: wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof It seems like it should be fine if you ru

Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Frye
n Behalf Of Nick Vida Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:13 AM To: wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof It seems like it should be fine if you run one conduit to your shop inverter, and another to a dc disconnect and underground to the house inverter, but I see you runnin

[RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-18 Thread Nick Vida
It seems like it should be fine if you run one conduit to your shop inverter, and another to a dc disconnect and underground to the house inverter, but I see you running a bonding wire for the 2 GECs as well for some reason. You should go through the part of 250 about different GEC for separate

[RE-wrenches] Two Buildings, Two Services, One Roof

2011-04-17 Thread Mark Frye
I have a customer who has two separate buildings, a home and a shop. Each dwelling has it's own service. He wants to put in two pv systems, one for each service, but wants all the PV modules to be on the shop roof. Why is mind going "clunk" when I try to deside if this is allowed by Code? Mark F