86 EC Shore power receptacles

[daydream II]

Which of the two receptacles is AC only

 

[Lazy Daze]

Can you better explain what you're asking?

It sounds like you're asking about the shore power receptacles on the boat where you plug your cord in? They would both be AC. But that's why I'm confused about what you're asking.

 

[Skybolt]

Which of the two receptacles is AC only

Please post a pic. Sometime there is phone and cable tv. But that should be obvious.

 

[Stee6043]

I'm going to go out on a limb and agree with "both"

 

[daydream II]

Can you better explain what you're asking?

It sounds like you're asking about the shore power receptacles on the boat where you plug your cord in? They would both be AC. But that's why I'm confused about what you're asking.

Sorry for my poor description of the issue. My understanding of the two shore power 120 V AC receptacles is that one of them is dedicated to the boat AC (air conditioner) unit. Questions: was this a typical OEM configuration? Are the receptacles marked?
I just purchased the boat along with the shrink wrap so I have a lot of questions as you can imagine. Thanks

 

[bahamabreisus]

On the outside, 1 should be labeled line 1 and 1 line 2. Look on your interior panel and see which one the AC is on.

 

[Lazy Daze]

Ah, that makes much more sense

I do believe some of the boats were wired like you're wondering. In addition to what Bahama said...

-- Just plug into one AC receptacle... what works/doesn't work?
-- There is a good chance there's info in your owner's manual about this. If you don't have the original, you can download it on SR's site. If your exact year isn't there, look to other nearby years.

Buy a Shrink Door so you can get in and out of the boat

 

[bahamabreisus]

I think a lot of the AC units were dealer installed in those days on that size boats. So the dealer would install a 2nd power inlet.

 

[daydream II]

Thanks for your feedback. I'm currently in the data gathering phase to get a head start on the spring to-do list. My current thinking is that one of the shore power receptacles is hard wired to the air conditioner and the other receptacle does everything else with some management to address amperage requirements. This arrangement would explain why the main AC electrical panel only has one set of volt/amp meters since you have no control of the hard wired air conditioner circuit other than on/off.
I remember those days of shrink wrap doors and winter week-end projects. I'm now a snow bird.

 

[Skybolt]

Thanks for your feedback. I'm currently in the data gathering phase to get a head start on the spring to-do list. My current thinking is that one of the shore power receptacles is hard wired to the air conditioner and the other receptacle does everything else with some management to address amperage requirements. This arrangement would explain why the main AC electrical panel only has one set of volt/amp meters since you have no control of the hard wired air conditioner circuit other than on/off.
I remember those days of shrink wrap doors and winter week-end projects. I'm now a snow bird.

The Air Cond. line should have a breaker on the panel for it that is separate from the main, but that's it. I believe there is only one main 30A breaker and the AC one in that same rows of breakers, but labeled for AC, and again, not part of that main breaker. But you never know how the PO wired things up if they changed anything or not.

 

[daydream II]

Thanks for the AC panel photo

 

[Skybolt]

The Air Cond. line should have a breaker on the panel for it that is separate from the main, but that's it. I believe there is only one main 30A breaker and the AC one in that same rows of breakers, but labeled for AC, and again, not part of that main breaker. But you never know how the PO wired things up if they changed anything or not.

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Also note that the "Main" AC breaker up top isn't always tied into the generator. So you will have some investigation to do in the spring.

 

[Skybolt]

Thanks for the AC panel photo

That may not be an exact pic of your panel, but should be close. There were a few different styles and organization of them depending on which factory built the boat.