Solar install turning out really bad - looking for some help/advice please.

[control4userguy]

Look at it this way, if you think they changed inspectors because the job had so many flags maybe that's a sign you needed serious instruction/correction on what TO do. The question now is will you inform your insurance co. about the capital add to your home? Without the inspector/signed permit, you have no leg to stand on if a solar-related fire occurs.

[ericf1]

Good luck today. The way its gone so far, you will need it.

[HX_Guy]

Checked on the status online just now and it looks like the same inspector from last time is coming out now, they must have made the change this morning. I bet the previous inspector got wind that the re-inspection is today and wanted to make sure it's her that comes back out.

[silversaver]

Too bad you picked a very questionable installer to begin with isn't it. The good side is that you managed to give other members a lesson on what not to do.

lol

[russ]

Too bad you picked a very questionable installer to begin with isn't it. The good side is that you managed to give other members a lesson on what not to do.

[HX_Guy]

Oh, and I don't know how I feel about a new inspector coming out. On one end, the lady that came out was super anal - not that that's a bad thing for thing kind of thing - but she was a little over the top on some items (like the permit not specifying the amperage of the meter socket... the physical socket said 100A on it...and there's a 60A breaker on the system, some common sense could be used there).

She however didn't catch some other things, like a solar panel over a plumbing vent...and the new guy might, which would ROYALLY suck. That's another thing that my city is just being super anal about. City of Phoenix for example allows it, as long a the vent still has at least 1.5" of clearance above it.

You'd figure if the lady came back out, she's only check on the items that she marked as needed fixed, not look over everything again. There's a chance the new inspector will go through everything as if it's never been looked at before.

[HX_Guy]

I take it you have not heard from the installer today? With inspection tomorrow he's putting the stress on you for sure.

I didn't except to hear from him today, so no surprise there.

Like I mentioned earlier, the "schedule" is that he's supposed to come out first thing in the morning tomorrow, bring the permit for the inspector (that's how it's done here, not sure if thats a nationwide thing...the contractor has to pick up the permit from the city and have it at the job site ready for the inspector), so say 7:00am and then fix the other small items needed before the inspector gets here...say 9:00am.

Only issue there is that the inspection time says 6:30am - 3:00pm, there is no actual set time, just sometime tomorrow. So there is a chance that the inspector could get here before, at the same time, or during the time that the installer is fixing things.

[alienwulf]

I take it you have not heard from the installer today? With inspection tomorrow he's putting the stress on you for sure.

[SunEagle]

Buy donuts

Or just have a nice Brunch waiting.

[alienwulf]

Make them jelly filled and hope installer isn't a no show. Would really be like him.

[control4userguy]

Buy donuts

[HX_Guy]

City re-inspection scheduled for tomorrow! It's a new inspector, not the same one that came out before...oh boy.

The installer hasn't been out to fix the other items yet, but originally he did say he was going to do that the same day as the inspection - pick up permit at city, bring it over first thing in the morning, and fix the items before the inspector gets here. With my luck though, the inspector will be here before the installer gets here.

[HX_Guy]

Sounds like you are ALMOST there. How were the loose MC4s handled? Bruce Roe

They weren't, yet. I don't even know if I'm going to ask him to do it or if I'll just leave it alone and handle it myself after he's out of the picture. I have the crimping tool and 15 MC4 connectors sitting in a box here ready to go.

[bcroe]

I'll be the one getting the last laugh with a nice big system
and top notch install and components at a very good price/watt.

Sounds like you are ALMOST there. How were the loose MC4s handled? Bruce Roe

[HX_Guy]

Don't forget that your equipment grounding of the AC Disconnect was also flagged during the first inspection. You'll need to do something different there... go back to the original discussion of that for some ideas.

Yep, that too. The inspector said we can use the screw already there, just need to scrape off more of the paint and then run the ground wire around the screw instead of the double lugged method that I did.