Code department giving me a hard time ... need advice on first grid tie installation

[Paul Land]

Paul,

I won't call you stupid, dangerous or wrong, but please slow down, take a breather and read and learn for a few weeks before giving advice. You are often shooting from the hip with information that is tangential to the conversation and/or counter to good engineering practices. Examples are referencing engineering data for the mounting hardware when the discussion is clearly about the underlying structure, and then throwing grounding methods and even thermal loading into the mix, and then stubbornly digging your heels in when several people call you on it and ask you to stop. We'd like you to hang around but please resist the urge to answer questions that are out of your area of expertise.

Thanks.

Iam Breathing slower now after the BOOT I will only post my work-arounds and how they worked for me. no more advice there only three experts here qualified to post. no more posts just one mans opinion and real life hacks.

[J.P.M.]

Iam Breathing slower now after the BOOT I will only post my work-arounds and how they worked for me. no more advice there only three experts here qualified to post. no more posts just one mans opinion and real life hacks.

A man's got to know his limitations. Opinions and real life hacks can still be dangerous.

[Paul Land]

A man's got to know his limitations. Opinions and real life hacks can still be dangerous.

ah-men

[inetdog]

Nothing wrong with putting a capacitor across an AC source if you carefully choose the capacitor size (microfarads and volts) and capacitor type (not a polarized electrolytic, for example).
Some capacitors are perfectly happy to withstand a particular DC voltage, with the possibility of some smaller amplitude hum current imposed on that, but not an AC waveform whose peak value is close to the nominal capacitor design voltage.
Other capacitors, such as motor run capacitors, are designed to take full voltage excursions (possibly with limited current) at 60 Hz without damage.
A randomly chosen capacitor with the right voltage limit and a lot of microfarads could indeed destroy itself quickly based on the current or the constant polarity reversals. Too large a capacitor will indeed draw enough current to trip a breaker.

[Paul Land]

Nothing wrong with putting a capacitor across an AC source if you carefully choose the capacitor size (microfarads and volts) and capacitor type (not a polarized electrolytic, for example).
Some capacitors are perfectly happy to withstand a particular DC voltage, with the possibility of some smaller amplitude hum current imposed on that, but not an AC waveform whose peak value is close to the nominal capacitor design voltage.
Other capacitors, such as motor run capacitors, are designed to take full voltage excursions (possibly with limited current) at 60 Hz without damage.
A randomly chosen capacitor with the right voltage limit and a lot of microfarads could indeed destroy itself quickly based on the current or the constant polarity reversals. Too large a capacitor will indeed draw enough current to trip a breaker.

Yup! I could have put motor matching cap on every motorized item i have. But that like putting GFI on every outlet. 1 and done old timers got it done without building complicated circuits. Just need to understand your purpose/requirements. I got hit for using the wrong terminology by using the term harmonic hum on ceiling fans

[foo1bar]

Yup! I could have put motor matching cap on every motorized item i have. But that like putting GFI on every outlet. 1 and done old timers got it done without building complicated circuits. Just need to understand your purpose/requirements. I got hit for using the wrong terminology by using the term harmonic hum on ceiling fans

The normal approach is to have a cap on each motor - because then you have the right amount when that motor is being used and you aren't causing problems when the motors are off. (or don't have enough when you have numerous motors starting/running at the same time) It isn't really "complicated circuits" - Most electric motors today have a spot to mount a capacitor or multiple capacitor and are designed with the expectation that you have that capacitor working and in place.

[Sunking]

ah-men

The idiot pretender returned.

[J.P.M.]

The idiot pretender returned.

You OK ?

[littleharbor]

You've been missed around here. The level of BS coming through has been pretty high lately.
Hope all is well.

[J.P.M.]

You've been missed around here. The level of BS coming through has been pretty high lately.
Hope all is well.

Does that say anything of the usefulness of knowledgeable posters ? Just wonderin' ?

[littleharbor]

Does that say anything of the usefulness of knowledgeable posters ? Just wonderin' ?

Yes it does. The workload has been higher for all trying to quash the BS and keep folks from hurting themselves by believing said BS.

[bcroe]

You've been missed around here. The level of BS coming through has been pretty high lately.
Hope all is well.

Same thoughts here. Bruce Roe

[SunEagle]

The idiot pretender returned.

Welcome back SK.

[ButchDeal]

Yes it does. The workload has been higher for all trying to quash the BS and keep folks from hurting themselves by believing said BS.

We have a fresh batch of future darwin award contestants...