Ground Mount Wire Protection

[Sunking]

The entire property is already fenced in and I would not consider it to be "readily accessible" to outside people,.

Means nothing. No jury will take ignorance as a defense. Anyone gets hurt for any reason you own it.

Your only protection is pulling a permit and passing electrical inspections, home owners insurance policy with solar added, and it will require barriers to pass. Even then if anyone is hurt you own it. I have worked in, for, and around electric utilities for year. Utilities have made a lot of kids parents very rich. Those huge security fences and all those huge bright RED signs do not mean squat to a Jury.

[foo1bar]

The entire property is already fenced in and I would not consider it to be "readily accessible" to outside people, but what is considered reasonable?

What do you think 12 of your neighbors would say if a 10-year old got hurt by your array?
IMO if you make it so even if you got sued you'd have no problem winning the lawsuit, then you're set.
Armed guard or razor wire is obviously more than enough.
But a 2' high split rail decorative fence probably isn't.

[jorgey]

The entire property is already fenced in and I would not consider it to be "readily accessible" to outside people, but what is considered reasonable? Anyone who wants to can climb over or cut through a fence, they do it all the time at power substations and steel copper.

Does one need yet another internal fence around the array? Razor wire? Armed guard. Just wondering where you draw the line to meet the code as to not be "readily accessible" and of course reasonably protect those that are just stupid. I know that this can be subjective as to who is actually doing the inspection, but I would like to know, or better yet, see what others have done on their ground mount arrays. Almost every picture that I have seen has little to no protection at all.

[Sunking]

As Mike said barriers. If a kid breaches it and gets hurt, you own it.

[Mike90250]

The array site needs to be fenced to prevent access

[jorgey]

On a ground mount array, what has anyone done to protect the wires on the back of the array from being touched/tampered with by humans? I have seen a lot of arrays that have nothing more than some wire clips to hold the wires up and I have seen other arrays that have had wire mesh over everything. ....then there are those that have fenced in the entire array. Don't want some kid to wander to the back of my property and start yanking on cables and get fried.