What Norm has is a variation on a distributed power systems, which have been around for years. For some reason dedicated systems have just started to be designed and employed in the marine marketplace in the past few years. The current cutting edge seems to be the merging of distributed power systems and NMEA 2000 networks. You can read an intro to the technology in an article published by Ocean Navigator here:
http://www.capi2.com/downLoads/press/ON166_technotes.pdf Here's a link to one dedicated distributed power system engineered for the marine market: http://www.capi2.com Hope this helps, Collin > Lee wrote: >> I see all of praise of your electrical setup. But I frankly >> am scared to death of it. Do you have any circuit breaker >> protection in the event of a dead short. From what you have listed >> in your setup a dead short would affect every electrical component >> connected to the two feeds on each side of the boat. It could also >> short out everything connected to it (if you had a problem, >> everything would be dead). I totally understand the concept of >> your setup but the risk could totally fry everything on your boat >> not to mention the fire hazard of the setup. Am I missing >> something here? This is not an attack of your setup but rather some >> clarification of it. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
