Hey David.....if your grounds and neutrals are connected together on your boat you had better call a marine electrician cause that s a very big bozo no no....and as far as shire power being separated ? Not really a main panel will have grounds and neutrals on the same buss ...a sub panel will have them separated ..and certain instances where power is derived from isolation transformers
Sent from my iPad On Aug 31, 2014, at 5:47 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > As previously stated a gas generator is a bad idea, but not because of > exhaust. When a boat is plugged into shore power all the a/c grounds and > neutrals are separated for safety. When you throw the switch from shore to > generator it combines the a/c grounds and neutrals for safety. If you use a > gas generator and plug it into your shore power you will create the potential > of electrocuting swimmers. The problem is even more severe in fresh water > than salt water. If you want to know why fresh water is more dangerous than > salt water look up "fresh water electrocution". > > > > On Sunday, August 3, 2014 12:27:33 PM UTC-7, BC wrote: > Has anyone had their gen. set replaced. I have a 7.5kW Onan MDJE that is flat > worn out and am going to have a Yanmar 7 kW installed. I have a 42 ft. aft > cabin and it's going to be a real bear to get it replaced. Any thoughts on > this and approximately how long did it take? > > Thanks, > > Bob C. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "UnifliteWorld" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
