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Old 06-03-2020, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ndutton View Post
I advise EVERY 120V circuit onboard be GFI protected.
All my outlets have GFCI protection. My inverters have a weird setup where hot and neutral are both 60 volts above ground, which I thought would hose up the GFCIs but it does not 99% of the stuff I plug in does not care, but one laptop power supply refuses to work. It has a three-prong cord and apparently the Chinese "engineers" decided to go hot-ground instead of hot-neutral to power it
NOTHING that runs on AC a boat should EVER be powered from hot and ground! I worked on a boat that had neutral and ground switched and the air conditioner discharge water shooting onto the floating dock would shock the crap out of you

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