HELLO PETER, THANKS FOR REPLYING. SORRY IF WE SOUND CONFUSING WE HAVE
ONLY HAD THE BOAT FOR A WEEK AND ARE NEW TO HAVING A POWER BOAT, OUR
PREVIOUS SAIL BOAT WAS VERY SIMPLE WITH FEW GADGETS =) THE PREVIOUS
OWNER DID NOT HAVE THE BOAT FOR VERY LONG, SO HE DOES NOT REALLY HAVE
MANY ANSWERS FOR US EITHER.
More details would be useful. As it stands, your description doesn't
make sense to me, as the common North American 30 amp shore power
service _is_ 110 volts. Do you mean that the boat has a 30 amp power
inlet and shore power cord, but the dock only has a household-style 15
amp/110V outlet?
YES THAT IS CORRECT THE DOCK ONLY AS A HOUSEHOLD STYLE 15 AMP OUTLET
(WE ARE AT HEATHER MARINE IN FALSE CREEK)
If so, first thing I would do would be to turn off all the AC panel
circuit breakers - both main and branch. Then connect the shore power
cord. If the shore breaker trips, you have a wiring problem in the 30
- 15 amp adaptor, the dock outlet (unlikely) or on the boat (also
unlikely, if things worked when plugged into a 30 amp outlet.)
WE DID TURN EVERYTHING OFF AND PLUGGED IN AND TRIPPED THE BREAKER ON
THE DOCK. WE TRIED OUR NEIGHBOUR BOAT'S ADOPTOR ON OUR CABLE (WHICH I
MIGHT ADD IS NEW) AND IT STILL TRIPPED THE DOCK BREAKER. (ON THE DOCK
AT GRANVILLE ISLAND WE HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH USING THE 30 AMP.)
WE HAD SET THE (XANTREX LINK 1000) POWER SHARE VALUE TO A NUMBER OF
VALUES -- DEFAULT IS 30 -- WE THINK WE WILL TRY SETTING IT TO 15 AND
TRY AGAIN? I'M THINKING THAT WE DON'T HAVE SOMETHING SET CORRECT ON
THIS LINK 1000.
BTW -- WE ARE INTERESTED IN THE VANCOUVER POWER SQUADRON WHICH I SEE
YOU HAVE A LINK TO ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR POST, ARE YOU A MEMBER? IS
THERE AN EVENING THAT WE CAN COME AND CHECK IT OUT?
THANKS AGAIN.
If the shore breaker hasn't tripped, turn on the branch circuit
breakers one at a time, til it does - then you _may_ have found the
source of the problem.
One local marina uses the 15 amp household-style outlets, and has
several outlets on one breaker - this caused blown breakers several
times on a club cruise there, as we all wanted to run heaters - I
think we eventually got the boats distributed between breakers, and
heaters turned down, so we could all get some heat.
--
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
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