Looking for advice from someone who has done a DIY solar in Linn county Oregon.

[Chewy]

I am a retired industrial control electrician. I am planning on installing a hybrid 15 K PV ground mount array on my property. I would like to put the inverters in my barn which is about 150 feet from where the array would sit. I don’t plan on putting batteries in initially however, I do plan on installing them down the road. I consider myself to be a very skilled electrician/fabricator/installer. However, the part that I would like some advice hopefully from someone who has gone through the whole process. I have done some reading on Pacific Powers website as well as the Oregon building code website. I think I understand most of it, but it would be comforting to talk to someone who’s been there done that. Thank you.

 

[DIYrich]

Some of the diy solar websites offer permit design plans.

 

[millsan1]

No idea about OR, but the drawing portion of my install was the biggest PITA. SLD, SLD with wires, SLD with ground, TLD, blah blah blah. Once it was done, not so bad, and you are probably more comfortable with this stuff than I was, but it was trying at first.