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Subject: TWL: Re: Electrical Question
From: Victor McCloskey (vic.mccloskey@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 13:01:56 EDT
Robin, what were the other two circuits that were out?
Are you sure there was shore power all the way to the panel?
What was the battery voltage at the time?
Vic McCloskey
----- Original Message -----
From: "bpst" <bpst@XXX.XXX>
To: "World Trawler" <trawler-world-list@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: TWL: Electrical Question
> Good Morning, All
>
> I went down to the boat Saturday afternoon. It is home in its slip on the
> Columbia. As soon as I opened the door to the salon it became very
apparent
> that the refer/freezer had failed,.....some time ago. I think a nice
fillet
> of lingcod was leading the odiferous assault. Woooah, it been hot in
> Portland and I had not been on the boat for 10 days. I checked the panel
> and found the following:
> Shore power was on and functioning
> 3 circuits were dead, no panel indicator lights
> The breakers had not blown
> All 3 were on the inverter circuit
> I turned off and then back on the shore power and at the panel and
> the 3 lights/circuits powered back up. (Lest anyone think I had any
reason
> to know or even suspect that cycling the shore power would effect a
positive
> reaction, oh contraire. I just started twisting things and poof, it
> worked.)
>
> I suspect that there was something in the inverter that tripped and the
> cycling of the AC power somehow undid the glitch. However this is
ignorance
> at its finest and I welcome learned input from any and all.
> Thanks.
>
> Robin Goffrier
> Amazing Grace
> Portland, Oregon
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