texasvet54
Petty Officer 1st Class
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Help Please!!!
I have a 52' factory built Three Buoy's Sunseeker houseboat with an aluminum hull. My dock was recently re-wired with individual GFCI breakers on each slip and when I connect to the receptacle for my slip the GFCI breaker tripped. Prior to the installation of the GFCI breaker, everything was fine.
Here is what I've done so far:
1. I disconnect my power cable from my boat and connected it to the dock source and breaker doesn't trip.
2. I placed my on-board power panel "Dock-OFF-OnBoard" power switch to the OFF position with all of the breakers turned off and the GFCI breaker trips.
This is pretty perplexing because in the OFF position with no load, I would have thought that the GFCI breaker would not have been providing any current.
My next step is to trace my wiring to the "Dock-OFF-OnBoard" switch from my power cable connector and disconnect the wiring from the switch. If the GFCI doesn't trip, I'll proceed further down the line.
I wanted to start this project this weekend and I was wondering if anyone has ran into this before and can give me some guidance?
Thanks,
Texasvet
I have a 52' factory built Three Buoy's Sunseeker houseboat with an aluminum hull. My dock was recently re-wired with individual GFCI breakers on each slip and when I connect to the receptacle for my slip the GFCI breaker tripped. Prior to the installation of the GFCI breaker, everything was fine.
Here is what I've done so far:
1. I disconnect my power cable from my boat and connected it to the dock source and breaker doesn't trip.
2. I placed my on-board power panel "Dock-OFF-OnBoard" power switch to the OFF position with all of the breakers turned off and the GFCI breaker trips.
This is pretty perplexing because in the OFF position with no load, I would have thought that the GFCI breaker would not have been providing any current.
My next step is to trace my wiring to the "Dock-OFF-OnBoard" switch from my power cable connector and disconnect the wiring from the switch. If the GFCI doesn't trip, I'll proceed further down the line.
I wanted to start this project this weekend and I was wondering if anyone has ran into this before and can give me some guidance?
Thanks,
Texasvet