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Re: T&T: Debugging an electrical problem

From: Peter Bennett (no email)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2007 - 00:25:36 EDT

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    Sunday, July 1, 2007, 4:19:47 PM, Greg wrote:

    GB> I am a bit stumped and was hoping someone could help me out. We just
    GB> bought a 44' Thompson Trawler in Ft. Myers, FL about 2 months ago. We
    GB> have successfully moved the boat from Ft. Myers to Kentucky Lake to sit
    GB> out hurricane season this year. Now that we are sitting at our dock on
    GB> Kentucky Lake, I'm experiencing an electric problem that we did not
    GB> have up to this point.

    GB> We we are on shore power (50A), we get enough power to power everything
    GB> on the boat (including dual air conditioners at the same time) except
    GB> the electric stove. The electric stove will sort of power on, but the
    GB> burners never get very hot and the LED "On" light does not light. This
    GB> is the first marina where we have had this issue. The stove has worked
    GB> fine in other marinas on shore power. If I switch to generator power,
    GB> the stove works just fine. I have tried two shore side outlets (both
    GB> in the same box) and both inlets on the boat (one on each side). There
    GB> are no other 50A shore side boxes close enough to reach. My multimeter
    GB> doesn't have prongs long enough to measure voltage at the box. I'm not
    GB> sure what else to test.

    GB> Is it my cable going bad? Is it the shore side box that is bad? Is it
    GB> the internal boat wiring having troubles?

    GB> Thanks...
    GB> Greg...

    You will have to measure voltages at various points,even if it means
    opening the outlet box.

    I assume that you have not changed the boat's wiring recently, so we
    can assume that the boat wiring is correct, and the problem is the
    voltage available at the shore power outlet.

    -- 
    Peter Bennett, VE7CEI    Vancouver, B.C., Canada
    Ennos 31 "Honeycomb"
    GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter 
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