[RE-wrenches] NEC 705.12(B)(2)(3)(c) intention

Mark Frye markf at berkeleysolar.com
Wed Apr 19 16:18:25 PDT 2017


If your sketch shows that there are 200A of breakers in the sub panel 
and 200A of breakers in the main, then, no, that would not be the 
intent.  The lug kit makes the two separate bars into a single bar.

Mark

On 4/19/2017 3:29 PM, August Goers wrote:
>
> Hi Wrenches –
>
> Now that we’re in the 2014 NEC, we’ve increasingly been using the NEC 
> 705.12(B)(2)(3)(c) interconnection method:
>
> imap://markf@mail.lmi.net:143/fetch%3EUID%3E.Re-Wrenches%3E12200?header=quotebody&part=1.1.2&filename=image001.png
>
> This is a great way of putting lots of PV on a panel when there are 
> few loads. As long as the total breaker rating (excluding the supply 
> breaker) equals the bus rating or less, we’re good to go. However, we 
> recently ran into a panel that had a lug subfeed kit installed in it.
>
> Do you think the intention of the code is to allow something like 
> shown in this sketch?
>
> Cheers,
>
> August
>
> Luminalt
>
>
>
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