maegan
New Member
- Jul 29, 2015
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- Boat Info
- 2002 Sundancer 360
- Engines
- Twin Mercuiser 8.1S Gas, Westerbeke Genny
The picture of your electrical panel, there is a note next to AC Converter that says always turn on. The fridge 110v switch has a note to always leave on.
If you are not leaving the AC Converter (battery charger) on while you are away from the boat - that is an issue. If you have a newer model battery charger, you should generally leave it on when ever you have shore power.
There is also a sticker next to the refrigerator 12v DC breaker, and that breaker is on.
Thinking you may have lost dock power, the fridge switches over to 12v and killed a battery bank. When power came back, the battery charger might have went south or snapped the fuse.
I keep my 12vdc fridge switch off, unless I know I need it. I would rather have a fridge mess to clean up, then worry about a dead battery bank.
..all this given I’m reading your pics properly..
Yes, you're reading my pics correctly. I put those stickers on after we had our seatrial and the surveyor went over all of that with us. There was SO much information. This is our first boat, we were (are) completely green. Heck, I didn't even know the difference between AC and DC before stumbling upon this problem and reading things on the internet. I've learned so much throughout this process. I guess I just learned something else.
So, if I would NOT have had that bottom 12vdc switch on, the galley fridges would continue to run off of shore power? I should only turn that on if disconnecting from shore power, like if we went out for a ride and I wanted them to run off of the batteries to stay cold? Am I understanding correctly?
We have had some power outages at the marina lately. So the scenario that you describe is quite possible. It was too much for my original 2002 charger to handle.