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--></style></head><body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Right, but if we limit the load breakers to the bus rating per </span>NEC 705.12(B)(2)(3)(c), then there will never be an overcurrent event.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">August</span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> RE-wrenches [mailto:<a href="mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Frye<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 19, 2017 4:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] NEC 705.12(B)(2)(3)(c) intention</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p>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.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p><p>Mark</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 4/19/2017 3:29 PM, August Goers wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><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@01D2B92A.5FA1CD10" alt="imap://markf@mail.lmi.net:143/fetch%3EUID%3E.Re-Wrenches%3E12200?header=quotebody&part=1.1.2&filename=image001.png"></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@01D2B92A.5FA1CD10"></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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br><br><br></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>List sponsored by Redwood Alliance</pre><pre> </pre><pre>List Address: <a href="mailto:RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a></pre><pre> </pre><pre>Change listserver email address & settings:</pre><pre><a href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org">http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org</a></pre><pre> </pre><pre>List-Archive: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html</a></pre><pre> </pre><pre>List rules & etiquette:</pre><pre><a href="http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm">www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm</a></pre><pre> </pre><pre>Check out or update participant bios:</pre><pre><a href="http://www.members.re-wrenches.org">www.members.re-wrenches.org</a></pre><pre> </pre></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div></body></html>