Agreed! on my (2nd) previous boat, I replaced the boat-side connector with a hard connection and drip loop after reading about Norm's experience a few years ago (wow, almost 10 years now). The boat side of the connection was corroded and the shore side appeared heat damaged (with no external side of either). Felt like I dodged a bullet.
Learning by other's experience is the best teacher...... jim boatless and landlocked for the next week On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > The problem is when these plugs become corroded, overheat and at times, > cause fires. The devastating fire at Cotter Marina (?) was reported to > have been caused an overheated plugged connection. > > It is impossible to see inside the female connector and unless you > disassemble (which is often impossible) the plug you will never know its > condition. ALSO: these connections are most often forgotten and terribly > neglected. They sometimes get yanked, contacts weaken with age, corrosion > and overheating results, but what the hell, It works, whats the problem? > Until there is one. > > I disassembled a Hubble adapter and found regular coarse stranded wire > making the internal connections. The bare copper was very corroded at the > terminals and without disassembly would not be known. > > The condition of a ring terminal can easily be known, connections made > tight and strain relieved. It may be less convenient, but the problems > approach zero. > > My bucks worth. (inflation you know ;-) > > -- > S/V ORYOKI > Philip & Marilyn Lange > AE4OV KD4JRC > Currently on the hill - Beaufort NC > > "There's no point in making a plan if > you're not going to pretend to follow it!" > > > > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 07:51 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > Vern,Norm, etc., > > Please don't get me wrong because you know I truly value your input in areas > such as we're discussing now and I'll always (well, ___most___of the time > :-)) but I'm not so sure exactly what is wrong with using the OEM shorepower > recepticles which come with the boat. We have a few large yachts (one @ 70' > and one beautiful 125' sailboat) which call our Marine Center home. Norm, > you've seen them when you've been here on past July 4ths. Granted, I have no > idea what's going on below, behind the plug, but they connect to our > shorepower pedestals (I think they've go dedicated larger amperage ones)just > like the rest of us and the boatside end of the cable goes into recepticles > on the boat, just like the rest of us except larger. > > I'll grant you that sometimes there's shoddy electrical work done at the > factory on production boats (that's a whole 'nuther thread!) but for the most > part the system works. Seems to me that with proper inspection of the plugs > to insure nothing's burnt or overheated, you could go with the stock system > forever. > > Steve > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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