[RE-wrenches] Fwd: 2011 NEC Articles 690 and 705: ROP and Draft Code

[Michael Welch]

Hi gang. Received this from John Wiles. You can get on his distribution list by emailing him at <jwiles at nmsu.edu>

In the meantime, you can find these files here:
ftp://ftp.re-wrenches.org/pub/2011_NEC/

>>Dear PV Industry Forum:
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>>Code Making Panel 4 with Ward Bower as the PV Industry Representative (Bill Brooks, Alternate) met for three fast and furious days in January 2009 to work on proposals submitted for Articles 225, 230, 690, 692, 694, 700, 702, and 705 in the 2011 NEC.
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>>The PV Industry Forum made proposals for Articles 300, 690  and 705 .
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>>The Report of Proposals (ROP) showing all proposals and the panel actions for articles 690 and 705 is attached.
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>>Also attached articles 690 and 705 in the 2011 Draft Code based on the ROP panel actions.
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>>The full ROP and the full draft 2011 NEC can be downloaded from the NFPA web site.
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>>We had many of our 55 proposals accepted, but key proposals came up late in the back-breaking, 20 hours-per-day sessions and were rejected by CMP 4 who is new to PV this year.
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>>I will be circulating draft comments that may help us revive rejected proposals.  In particular, we need our changes for 690.14 and 705.12 accepted or the PV code may remain in a dark and confusing stage on these subjects for yet another three years.
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>The comments are due 23 October and I will be submitting them about 19 October.