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Well, I'm about to get some real world experience with a battery powered largish boat in a couple of years. As many of you know, I live on Guemes Island which is directly north of Anacortes (gateway to the San Juan Islands in WA state). We Guemanians (as I call us) depend on a small county ferry...

Gotta agree with you on that one.... :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol: I plan to spend a lot of time in Canada this summer. I'm a bit afraid that latent demand is going to make it crowded up there. For the first time, I'm grateful to the non-vaxxers :wink:.

WOW.....I'm going to follow your posts all the way thru. I admire your courage and "just-do-it"-ness. But what I love the most is your ironic sense of humor. What a great attitude!

croakz, I ended up getting 5/8" screws. However, you probably can't learn much from my experience since, as it turned out, I never did the project. I still have the snap/screw male heads, but I've never actually used them. P.S. To protect my gunnel from crab traps etc, I ended up just using a...

I'm crying!

I'm not sure I truly understand what this language says. Can I go to a Canadian entry port and get approved just once, and then be accepted at any other BC port without further testing as long as I don't leave BC? It says the test must be done at a lab. Can one scan the certificate and email...

Unless the installation location is damp or subject to some water intrusion like mine is (under the splashwell); then you want one of their other models.

OUCH! A few years ago when my Honda 150 blew up, the boat sat in a boat yard for 6 months before I got her back. I missed the entire boating season. This was all pre-COVID, but I still had all sorts of supply problems, and miscommunications, up and down the line that created delays at every...

Just be sure that you don't ground the battery charger case/etc to the engine or to any other metal that touches the water.

OOPS....I see I posted an edited version of my post just after your reply. Ships in the night......

So you don't have a shore power receptacle mounted on the boat that the shore power extension cord plugs into? Normally, the GI goes immediately downstream of that receptacle since the ground wire is already exposed (on its way to the AC panel). Alternatively, I guess you are interested simply...

GIs are installed on the AC shorepower ground wire alone. the line and neutral wires on shore and in the boat are not involved. Here is a helpful Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0vkQyoZnS8

Here's one small data point for you..... A galvanic isolator is really nothing more than a large capacitor. It's only job is to allow AC current to flow through it, but at the same time not allow any DC current to flow. It isolates the boat from the shore so that no DC current can flow in...

I assume you know the the GI is only functioning when you are plugged into shore power (actually plugged into a land based system). It doesn't come into play when you are on your generator.

As I said......IMHO As it turns out, I have changed my opinion on the marketing ploy comment. Some research has shown me that in the USA small generator output is usually stated in KW (kilowatts); hence the EU2200i claims to output up to 2200 watts. However, in most of the rest of the world...

Harvey, Get a simple Asian butane stove for $30 or so and be done with it (they come with a very effective storage case too). They work great and don't fail. Note that they can only handle 1 pot at a time. The "freezing problem" is a non-issue if you are cooking inside the cabin at normal...

IMHO, this KVA designation is just a marketing ploy. KVA just means volts times amps divided by 1000. Watts is also volts times amps. So mathematically 1 KVA = 1000 watts. However, the electric industry uses KVA and watts in a special way. All systems are subject to inefficiencies; so they use...

Just to tip the seesaw up a tiny bit in the other direction.... There are some benefits. Once a vehicle (car, boat, train, etc) operates with electric power, there are some possibilities that didn't exist before. The toxic emissions might be less KWH for KWH via scrubbing technology at a power...

Certainly true for front driven winds, but not true for thermal driven winds.

Very interesting Tom.....I learned something. Frankly, it's hard for me to imagine shrimping without current since current has always been the #1 factor I deal with (and screw up over :wink: :lol: ). You'd be just the guy to likely know the answer to this question....I've always thought that...