<div dir="ltr"><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/47994dfd5acfecdd8bc9bd2d5e697b75573a1922.png?u=1613865"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Calc loads and see if you can replace the main with a 175A breaker if it exists, or even 150A. T<span style="font-size:0.875rem">his main breaker downsizing has been a go-to exercise for us for existing meter-mains. It's frustrating being limited to 40A on the load side. That doesn't even get to 10kWdc with Enphase IQ7+, which is becoming a pretty small system these days around here. I tell every home builder I see to avoid meter-main combos but they keep putting them in.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sadly our utility accepts NONE of the "solar ready" panels on the market. That's another snag we run into.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jason Szumlanski</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Florida Solar Design Group</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><tbody></tbody></table><b><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 2:50 PM Sarah Ray <<a href="mailto:sarahmray@gmail.com">sarahmray@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Wrenches,</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Does anyone have a recommendation for a meter main with a 225A bus and pass through lugs? Eaton and SquareD make meter mains with a 225A bus, but no pass-through lugs, so they don't work well for most retrofit applications. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>We would like to connect our inverter output to a feeder that is fed by the pass through lugs in the existing 200A meter main (which is located at another building.) The inverter output has a 60A OCPD, so the 200A meter main bus is not sufficient. </div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Sarah Ray</div><div><br></div><div>OnSite Energy, Inc.</div><div>619 N Church Ave, Suite 4</div><div>Bozeman, MT 59715</div><div>Cell: (406) 579-6512</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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