[RE-wrenches] meter pan?

2012-01-24 Thread Allen Frishman
Wrencher's, I am having a good debate with a fellow solar installer regarding an NEC requirement to isolate a meter between two disconnecting means adjacent to the meter when grid connecting via a tap. My thought is that if we have a load center with breakers to combine multiple inverters on

Re: [RE-wrenches] meter pan?

2012-01-24 Thread Dave Click
I guess someone could argue that 690.15 would require a disconnect on both sides of that meter, but for this install, the line-side disconnect would immediately trip the inverters offline, so you can't really say that the meter is energized from more than one source like a DC disconnect would

Re: [RE-wrenches] meter pan?

2012-01-24 Thread mac Lewis
Here in Xcel territory in Colorado, we are required to cold-sequence the solar production meter. These disconnects have to be utility accessible and adjacent to the production meter itself. I believe this is only a utility requirement, not a code requirement. This seems to be unneeded

Re: [RE-wrenches] meter pan?

2012-01-24 Thread Gary Willett
In Texas, for the Oncor Energy TDSP (transmission distribution service provider) interconnection agreement, an outside disconnect* is required. If a PV installation is submitted to Oncor for a rebate, they also require the inclusion of PV REC (renewable energy credit) meter, but do not