L.A. County made us drive FOUR 8 foot ground rods into the ground, no less than 8 feet apart, for our ground-mounted 13 kW solar array.
This is ridiculous beyond description and it is NOT in the N.E.C. at all.
The problem you run into with places like L.A. County is that incompetent plan checkers just want to play "cover my ass" and make up rules. There is no practical way to challenge them. They are the absolute authority (unless you have millions of dollars and YEARS to fight them).
I checked with contractors and the recommendation was "just do it and don't complain or they'll make your project a living nightmare".
So, we did.
They still made the project a nightmare to complete. They added a massive chunk to the overall cost and it took six months longer than it should have taken to complete it. Their interference made it such that this solar system will likely never recover the construction costs. Well, maybe in 30 years. It's a shame. Had I known the nightmare it is to deal with this bureaucracy I would have invested my money elsewhere.
California is sucking more and more with time. L.A. County is even worse.
This is ridiculous beyond description and it is NOT in the N.E.C. at all.
The problem you run into with places like L.A. County is that incompetent plan checkers just want to play "cover my ass" and make up rules. There is no practical way to challenge them. They are the absolute authority (unless you have millions of dollars and YEARS to fight them).
I checked with contractors and the recommendation was "just do it and don't complain or they'll make your project a living nightmare".
So, we did.
They still made the project a nightmare to complete. They added a massive chunk to the overall cost and it took six months longer than it should have taken to complete it. Their interference made it such that this solar system will likely never recover the construction costs. Well, maybe in 30 years. It's a shame. Had I known the nightmare it is to deal with this bureaucracy I would have invested my money elsewhere.
California is sucking more and more with time. L.A. County is even worse.