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I had it for a while, it sucked. Took turmeric with pepper extract for a few months and it went away. That was three years ago and it never came back.

Just a quick update, the marina says it is a problem on my boat and not at their pedestal. This issue first showed up after one of the docks came loose in a storm and broke a wire that left my dock out of power. Marina said then it was an issue on my boat. So now everything is new from the...

When the main first tripped and would not reset I switched generator on and reset the main. It stayed latched and everything worked correctly. As soon as I shut generator off and switched to shore power the main tripped.This is when i was seeing 30 V on the neutral. If I run off the generator...

Hot to ground is steady at 121 V. Neutral to ground is steady at 4.5 V.

At the pedestal H G 121 H N 121 N G 4.5

Yesterday when the main tripped i measured 30 volts on the neutral at the shore power switch in the boat and the breaker would not reset. All breakers were off when I saw 30 volts. The refrigerator is 120/12 volt and when I turned it off from the 12 volt side I remeasured the neutral and had 20...

So we have been at the marina all day and just now and the main tripped. I measured 126 on the hot side and 30 on the neutral. I had all breakers off. Then the fridge cycled on from the 12 volt side so I shut it off and remeasured. The neutral side went down to 20 volts and hot side stayed at...

I do not have this type of charger.

Is there a procedure I can use with my dvm or do I need a certain type of meter?

So I got to the boat to change out shore power switch and work on generator. When I looked in the panel the main was tripped so I reset it and it stayed on. When we left it last Monday the only breaker I left on was for the battery charger. Charger breaker was not tripped. I am going to look...

This makes sense. We usually run the fridge, battery charger, a/c, outlets and a cook top so we may be maxing out an old breaker. I'm heading to the marina in about an hour to do some maintenance and will check the wattage and amperage of our appliances. It may be as simple as turning off the...

This big guy shows up every so often checks us out and goes about his way.

How would I test for that? I keep a Field Piece DVM on the boat.

The issue I'm seeing is just a random trip of the main breaker. There is no rhyme or reason to it as to when it trips and I can reset it and it will be trouble free the rest of the time. My thought is that the boat was used as a floating condo for a while and now that we are using it a lot it is...

I will be at the boat tomorrow and get a better picture with the panel upright in its installed position. I had to rotate it a bit to get those pictures.