<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></span></div><div><div>On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:34 AM, William Miller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font size="3">At 11:21 PM 11/24/2009, you wrote:<br>
</font><blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="3">Ok William, I'll bite: what are
your exclusive PV wire Transition Boxes? </font></blockquote><br>
Ray:<br><br>
<a href="http://millersolar.com/practices/Technical_Procedures/PV_wiring/PV_wiring.html" eudora="autourl">http://millersolar.com/practices/Technical_Procedures/PV_wiring/PV_wiring.html</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>William;</div><div><br></div><div>That's some of the cleanest open array wiring I've seen. Very nice, but now the rest of us have to go back and clean up all our old work!</div><div>I also liked your method of quickly tightening connectors for flex conduit with a drill.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="3">Article 100,
definition of accessible says:<br>
"capable of being .... exposed without damaging the building
structure or finish....."<br>
it seems unbolting a module to get at the j box isn't doing
anything to the building.<br>
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Unbolting a module (or lifting a bottom-up rack) is often a two person
job. Although this is not "damaging a building or
structure," it defies common sense to make accessing a splice
or breaker for troubleshooting so difficult.<br><br>
William Miller<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree, it should not be a two man job.(add that to the definition of accessible?) I would only think it would be OK to put a Jbox under the array, if it was a top down mounting system with modules small enough for one guy to handle.</div><div>I've changed out damaged modules by myself before on a system with ProSolar mounts, and it took maybe 2 minutes to unbolt and remove the old module. (4 bolts with a small electric impact driver)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing your work and thoughts,</div><div><br></div><div>Ray Walters</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>
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