Wow, thank you so much
@Vines ! Where is that diagram from? Is it specific to San Jose? I'd love to have the whole publication to show the inspector if he/she starts talking about bollards.
And, from the diagram, it looks like even if they did say we need a bollard, it would only have to be 6" away from the PW. Any unnecessary bollard is less than ideal, but I was under the impression that the bollard would have to have 36" between itself and the PWs...which
really eats into the space of a garage. At 6", it's more like 18" total from the wall to the end of the bollard - if you count about 6" for the PW, 6" space and then 6" for the bollard...so that's less of a concern than double that amount of space.
Anyway, our garage looks like this, so I think we should be ok and not need a bollard at all, right? (since the return wall is a little over 24")
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And even though the site survey guys said "we'll come back next year some time and put in the bollards"...I think if it passes inspection without the bollard, they wouldn't need to "come back next year" and put a bollard in, right?
Now my next concern is whether it's ok to put a powerwall directly on the other side of the wall from the gas input/meter. The gas meter is on the outside of the wall, then a pipe comes through the wall and goes up the wall on the inside and then runs along the ceiling on the inside. Does anyone know if that's a problem?
Thanks again for all your help! It's kind of sad that we have to go to the community of other customers to find out these things...but it sounds like it's a problem that's not unique to Tesla. I think it's a wide spread problem throughout
the whole solar industry every industry. You almost have to become your own expert in everything these days if you want a job to be done well.