Recent content by B95054

There are actually several apps that will accomplish this. Tbh I forget the name of the app I used to use but have a look at the gps2ip app. It does exactly the same thing I used to use. No need for the cellular for. . I have experienced it in the real world.

Call me cheap but I just creat a wifi hotspot on my iPhone and then connect the iPad to it wirelessly. Saves me having to pay for an added cellular service.

I can’t speak to C-Dory because I cannot find one to buy yet, but I did battle this problem for a couple of years on my last Bayliner. I had to trickle the fuel in or it would splash back everywhere. When I looked at the vent and screen it looked perfectly fine so I never suspected it to be the...

I can’t speak to C-Dory because I cannot find one to buy yet, but I did battle this problem for a couple of years on my last Bayliner. I had to trickle the fuel in or it would splash back everywhere. When I looked at the vent and screen it looked perfectly fine so I never suspected it to be the...

Nice boat! If it was not 3000 miles away and in a different country that I am not allowed to drive to you would have me looking at it right away!

Absolutely correct and shame on me for attempting to oversimplify the flow of current into the house. There is still the issue of surges and how they are handled through the ground. But I will leave that subject alone. Suffice to say that leaving the ground unconnected as somebody posted above...

The current comes into the house on the hot lead and returns to the transformer via the neutral. In a voltage surge situation, let’s use a surge protector as an example...the excess energy gets collected in a storage device. In most cases this is a capacitor. The surge protector is tied to...

Surges are created by many more issues than lightning strikes. Actually over 75% of surges are created within the home. When you are using a high draw appliance and it shuts off abruptly a surge occurs, Surge Protective devices help but the ground rod is the path that the excess energy will...

Certainly There is a big difference with grounding between shore power and when running off of a generator or inverter. First to explain this properly we have to understand why to ground in the first place. It is there to protect you and your appliances from surges. For the most part an...

Certainly There is a big difference with grounding between shore power and when running off of a generator or inverter. First to explain this properly we have to understand why to ground in the first place. It is there to protect you and your appliances from surges. For the most part an...

Oh boy, I am not making any friends here today :D :D On shore power you are grounded to earth but on inverter power you rely on a bonded ground to neutral. The DPDT switch does not allow for a proper bonded ground to neutral. That is why you need to use a transfer switch. Floating the ground...

With all due respect.... Sizing is done according to his inverter and load size and not the shore power size. He is wiring one receptacle into his boat and therefore only needs one circuit of power. His 2000 watt inverter will put out 16.6 amps of constant current (ohms law. 2000w divided by 120...

Great points above. However a 2000 watt inverter only puts out a maximum of 16.6 amps so a 30 amp transfer switch is overkill. It won’t hurt anything but is unnecessary unless you plan to run a larger generator or inverter at some point. 15amp is sufficient. Those Magnums appears to be at a...

You will want to use a manual transfer switch. A single circuit 15amp is all you need. I have a Hubbell GENSWITCH515 wired into my house for power outages and if I remember correctly it was less than $100 CAD. It will isolate the two power sources so that you cannot accidentally run both shore...

Add a +1 to the no politics and no religion camp. The political arguments can tear apart a community in no time and we are just here to talk and read about boats (thank you for making this rule). For the Christians in here you may not understand what goes on in the minds of us non-Christian...