I just had an experience which once again shows how much we're penalized. Background: Having been into slips in the past where there was only 50A shore power pedestals, I either had to wait for the marina staff to come up with a 30A splitter or adapter, or move slips. So I decided to bite the bullet and buy and carry my own 50A splitter (50A shore-side to a pigtail of 2-30A boat-side plugs). So I ordered a Marinco (#153AY) splitter. I was looking at the 50A end and saw it was imprinted "50A, 120/240V".
So I did some checking and discovered that while the larger, newer marinas all provide the 50A 120/240 pedestals, there were still a huge amount of older marina's with 50A, 120V pedestals. So I called Jamestown Distributors and found out that if I wanted an "adaptor" to use my "120/240" plug in a straight "120" pedestal it would cost close to $250 - which was more than I paid for the 50A, 120/240V splitter!!!!!!!! That’s all.... I just had to rant a little!!! S Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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
