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(Larry W4CSC) again attempted to bull**** the world with his
partial knowledge of marine electronics with this gem of a piece of
bull****.......

On 2 Sep 2003 18:45:04 -0700, (Curtis CCR)
wrote:

Do inverters put out 120VAC with a hot and neutral (the way most
expect to see 120), or is there voltage on both sides? I ask because
a got a "reversed polarity" indication when I plugged my boat into a
friend's boat over the weekend.

It's isolated from ground and might give you this indication.

Correction......

It *might* be isolated and *will* give this indication of that is the case.

[snipped]

I am thinking he has an "upsidedown" outlet, but I wasn't about to
tear his boat apart at 10PM to figure it out. But then I thought
maybe the inverter output was causing it.

Thanks

It's probably the inverter. It isn't "dock power".

You don't say !

The digital
remnants in the synthesized sinewave could have also triggered your
alarm.

Not heard so much crap since the last time you typed something in this
newsgroup Larry.

"digital remnants in the synthesized sinewave" ??????

Shut that fat hole in your face before you make a complete **** of yourself....
oh wait... too late.

It's because the two outputs of *most* inverters are not connected in anyway to
the ground connection. They are floating.

Stray capacitance will *usually* mean a measurement from either hot1 or hot2 to
ground will show about half line voltage. This is usually sufficient to trigger
a reverse polarity indicator.

Other inverters have a rather strange output where each of the live outputs is
alternately connected to ground on each half cycle. This seems odd but does
infact work perfectly satisfactorily. This too will usually trigger up a
reverse polairty indicator.

Larry. The beginners books you're reading either are crap or you simply don't
understand them.

Have you tried cooking or fishing ? Something that doesn't tax your brain too
much.

Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.

Not in your house.

You can tell because they never tried to contact us.

Well they won't bother with you.

Actually YOU talk rubbish