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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Wrenches –</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Now that we’re in the 2014 NEC, we’ve increasingly been using the NEC 705.12(B)(2)(3)(c) interconnection method:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="446" height="285" style="width:4.6458in;height:2.9687in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D2B920.B3AB5D90" alt="cid:image001.png@01D2B920.B3AB5D90"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">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. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Do you think the intention of the code is to allow something like shown in this sketch?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="893" height="504" style="width:9.302in;height:5.25in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D2B921.C78B9A40"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">August</p><p class="MsoNormal">Luminalt</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>