<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Sorry, forgot to state my previous comment was in regards to a ground-mount. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Brian</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 1, 2022, at 12:19 PM, William Miller <william@millersolar.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300">Ray:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300">Thanks for that input. I was hoping I was wrong. I looked for that discussion in the archives but could not find it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300">William</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300">Miller Solar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300">17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300">805-438-5600</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300"><a href="http://www.millersolar.com/">www.millersolar.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300">CA Lic. 773985</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#003300"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003300"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> 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>Ray<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 1, 2022 10:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Rapid Shutdown for Off-grid systems</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p> Ground mounts do NOT require RSS. We hashed this out years ago on the Wrenches list, when NEC 2017 came out.</p><p>See Figure 690.1(B) Note (2): <i>" The PV system disconnect in these diagrams separates the PV system from all other systems".</i></p><p>Thus, the PV disconnect is defined as the transition point from the PV system to all other systems, like battery or inverter systems. The installer/ designer decides where to put that disconnect. I usually put it on the wall before it goes into the building, and I have never had an inspector question that. </p><p>Thanks,</p><pre>Ray Walters</pre><pre>Remote Solar</pre><pre>303 505-8760</pre><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 2/1/22 10:06 AM, William Miller wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">Jay:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">Here is the text from 2017:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">690.12 Rapid Shutdown of PV Systems on Buildings. PV</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">system circuits installed on or in buildings shall include a rapid</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">shutdown function to reduce shock hazard for emergency</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">responders in accordance with 690.12(A) through (D).</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">Exception: Ground mounted PV system circuits that enter buildings, of</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">which the sole purpose is to house PV system equipment, shall not be</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">required to comply with 690.12.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">The wording is interesting. The requirement is directed at \u201cPV system circuits\u2026\u201d, not PV arrays. The passage does not specify where the PV feeding those circuits is located, it just addresses where the circuits are, specifically \u201cin or on a building.\u201d</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">The only circuits that are exempt are those feeding a building that serves only one purpose, to house PV equipment. For circuits that enter building with other uses\u2014homes, garages, barns, workshops, etc.-- it would seem there is a requirement to have rapid shutdown systems (RSS).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">Reading through the rest of the section, I don\u2019t see any language that gets us out of the requirement to reduce voltages to less than 80 volts within 30 seconds inside the array boundary, as in module level shutdown, regardless of roof-top or ground-mount. Although the 2020 code includes some differing language, I don\u2019t see it as exempting ground mount systems.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">The moral of the story is this: For ground-mounts: either install RSS or put your equipment (inverters, charge controllers, batteries, BOS) in a separate building housing only that equipment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">I don\u2019t necessarily like the requirement, but I think it exists. Jay, or anyone, please, please tell me I am reading this incorrectly. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">By the way, regarding battery circuits, here is a quote from a post by Bill Brooks on March 16, 2016:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">In the 2017 NEC, we were very careful to carve out all batteries and loads,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">that were previously part of PV systems, and place them in their own</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">articles.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">I have not read through the battery sections of the code to verify this, I am taking Bill at his word.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">William Miller</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#993366">Miller Solar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#993366">17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#993366">805-438-5600</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#993366"><a href="http://www.millersolar.com/">www.millersolar.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#993366">CA Lic. 773985</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jay [mailto:<a href="mailto:jay.peltz@gmail.com">jay.peltz@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 1, 2022 6:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com">william@millersolar.com</a>; RE-wrenches<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Rapid Shutdown for Off-grid systems</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2017 code has a specific exception/clarification for ground mount solar that it does not need RS. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It\u2019s in the first line after 690.12</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jay</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Feb 1, 2022, at 12:13 AM, William Miller <<a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com">william@millersolar.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">\ufeff</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Jerry:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes it is required. Rapid Shutdown: NEC 690.12. All buildings except dedicated solar buildings. Read it and weep.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">William</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Miller Solar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">805-438-5600</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.millersolar.com/">www.millersolar.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">CA Lic. 773985</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jerry Shafer [mailto:<a href="mailto:jerrysgarage01@gmail.com">jerrysgarage01@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 31, 2022 7:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> William Miller; RE-wrenches<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Rapid Shutdown for Off-grid systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">William</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Are you sure RSD is required on a non habitable building, historically its not required. Now that being said we use fire raptor with the best results, yes it takes an extra conduite and might require a button and power supply depending on inverter application.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jerry</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 9:57 AM William Miller <<a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com">william@millersolar.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Friends:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">It is quite rare for us to install off-grid systems on roof-tops. We have one coming up with about 20kW on a large barn roof. This will be our first off-grid with a module-level rapid shutdown requirement. I see no exemptions from RSS for off-grid systems in the code. I have looked at the options and this is what I have found:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="m8583279663636586131msolistparagraph"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Fire Raptor</span></p><p class="m8583279663636586131msolistparagraph"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Tigo TS4-F</span></p><p class="m8583279663636586131msolistparagraph"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">AC coupling with micro-inverters or optimizers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">No one of these approaches seems ideal. The fire raptor requires extra wiring for control leads. The Tigo requires a wireless control system which worries me about reliability. With AC Coupling systems floating the proposed AGM batteries may be awkward. Furthermore, with AC coupled systems one cannot charge batteries unless the mini-grid is operational, a big problem.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Have any of you implemented module-level RSS on a battery-based inverter system? I looked in the archives and found no threads that apply. Thank in advance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">William Miller</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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