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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">Can you lay them on their sides?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"="">-Glenn</div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"="">Sent from my 'smart'phone, so please excuse typos and spelling errors.</div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Jason Szumlanski<jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com></jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Sat, Mar 27, 2021 11:12 AM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>RE-wrenches;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [RE-wrenches] Batteries and Working Spaces</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">That's problematic I think. I guess the next question would be, if I need to keep this breaker at 6'7", I don't see that being accessible be
someone standing in front of it anyway without a portable ladder, so what height IS acceptable?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, maybe I don't need to mount the whole battery above the flood level. Maybe just exposed live parts need to be that high. If that's the case, would that just be the tops?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 7:13 PM Chris Sparadeo <<a href="mailto:c2@catamountsolar.com">c2@catamountsolar.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Jason,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There is a 250A breaker located inside a compartment on the top of the unit. Keeping that reasonably accessible would be important. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, just out of curiosity, how are you planning of
getting these battery cabinets onto their 4\u2019 platform? Forklift? Ramp? </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:40 PM Jason Szumlanski <<a href="mailto:jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jason@floridasolardesigngroup.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am planning a battery backup system using Fortress 18.5kWh eVaults. Due to flood level requirements, these are going to need to be mounted about 48 inches above the garage floor on a shelf/platform. That puts the tops of the battery cabinets well above 6'7". But I believe that these do not fall under the working space requirements of NEC 110.26 since they are not likely to
require maintenance. In fact, could these be mounted even higher, say way up near the 14' ceiling (subject to manufacturer spacing requirements)? </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">Can anyone see any code problems with this approach, putting aside the practical problems with mounting heavy battery cabinets well above grade?</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">Florida Solar Desing Group</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"
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