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2020 NEC Slides For India Copyright Sean White - Reduced PDF
2020 NEC Slides For India Copyright Sean White - Reduced PDF
By Sean White
Solar Professor
2014 IREC Trainer of the Year
IREC Certified Master Trainer
Electrician and Solar Contractor
NABCEP Certified PV Professional
seanwhitesolar@gmail.com
www.maximumpowerpointtraining.com
A Yellow Dwarf
Star is on the
Cover of the
2020 NEC
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Original Article 690
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Informational Note: Figure 690.1(a) Identification of
PV Power Source Components
PV Source
Circuit Added No more
Panel!
Changed
Stand-alone
system loads
to Dedicated
loads in 2020
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Informational Note: Figure 690.1(a) Identification of
PV System Components
in Common Configurations
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Same 2020 & 2017 NEC
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2020 NEC 690.2 Definitions
Changes
• Monopole Subarray changed to
– Monopole Circuit
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2020 NEC 690.2 Definitions
Changes
• Multimode Inverter
– Removed from 690.2 Definitions
Solar Panel RIP
• Tired of correcting people about the solar
panel definition?
• Panel has been removed from 690.2
definitions.
• Now you can say solar panel without feeling
guilty!
690.8(A)(1)(a)(1)
The sum of parallel-connected PV module rated short
circuit-currents multiplied by 125 percent.
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DC-to-DC Converter Source Circuit Current
rooftop
Direct buried ground
mount or rooftop
This is why the fuses are at the combiner and not the module.
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2020 NEC 690.9(A)(3)(4)
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690.9(C)
690.12
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• 690.12(B)
• Controlled conductors outside the array
boundary shall comply with 690.12 (B) (1)
• Inside the array boundary shall comply with
690.12 (B) (2).
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2017 NEC 690.12
690.12(C)
• 690.12(C) Initiation Device.
Red=2020 NEC
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2017 & 2020 NEC 690.31
(wiring) Methods Permitted
690.31(B)(1) Identification.
PV system circuit conductors shall be identified at
all accessible points of termination, connection, and
splices. The means of identification shall be
permitted by separate color coding, marking tape,
tagging, or other approved means. Only solidly
grounded PV system circuit conductors, in
accordance with 690.41(A)(5), shall be marked in
accordance with Section 200.6
This means no white grounded conductor for GFDI
grounded inverters.
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2017 NEC 690.31
(wiring) Methods Permitted
• 690.31(C)(1) Single-Conductor Cable.
• General. Single-conductor cable Type USE-2, and
single-conductor cable listed and identified as
PV wire shall be permitted in exposed outdoor
locations in PV source circuits for PV module
interconnections within the PV array. PV wire
shall be installed in accordance with
338.10(B)(4)(b) and 334.30.
• 2020 NEC adds RHW-2 wire
• Secured every 24 inches
• PV wire can be used wherever RHW-2 can be
used
• No longer required to use PV wire for
ungrounded inverters. ©Sean USE-2
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RHW-2
• You can find the properties of RHW-2 in:
– Table 310.104(A) Conductor Applications and
Insulations Rated 600 Volts
• Instead of 2017:
– WARNING PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SOURCE (2017)
• Transformerless
• TL is often used by inverter manufacturers
• Ungrounded (NEC 2014 term)
• Non-Isolated- Correct term
• 250.120(C)
• Where not routed with circuit conductors, shall be
protected from physical damage in raceway or
cable armor unless in hollow spaces of building or
structure.
– I would say an array is a structure
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2017 NEC 690.47
Grounding Electrode System
• 690.47(A) Informational Note: Most PV systems
installed in the past decade are actually
functional grounded systems rather than solidly
grounded systems as defined in this Code. For
functional grounded PV systems with an
interactive inverter output, the ac equipment
grounding conductor is connected to associated
grounded ac distribution equipment. This
connection may be adequate as the connection to
ground for ground-fault protection and
equipment grounding of the PV array.
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690.47(B)
Bus x 1.2 =
- Main =
X .8 =
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