I received the following email from our club regarding our AC
electric. Any C&C listers able to elucidate as to what this means
and what you would anticipate it will take to correct?
Tom,
I have been doing electrical tests on new boats in QYC docks
recently. In reviewing the records of previously tested boats I
noticed an anomoly in the recorded results of one of the tests that
was done on Alera. Apparently, I overlooked or ignored this when I
tested Alera.
One of the measurements recorded indicates a very low resistance (20
ohms) from your AC plug neutral wire to the AC plug ground wire. All
the other measurements were high resistance and OK. This low
resistance would indicate that your boat's AC system has the neutral
wire connected to AC ground somewhere. While this is normal in home
wiring it is not standard on boats. It creates a shock hazard. It is
against ABYC standards for small boat 120 VAC, 30 A systems.
I highly recommend that you have this looked into and corrected. I
would be happy to help you checking this out if you want to deal
with it yourself.
J
thx
Tom Buscaglia
SV Alera
C&C 37+/40
Vashon Island WA
(206) 463-9200
www.sv-alera.com
_______________________________________________
This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album
Email address:
CnC-List@cnc-list.com
To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of page
at:
http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
