T&T: Troubles with a GFCI shorepower plug

[Gregory Han]

I wnet through this in Canada at Nova Scotia.
Their dock was wired at the master panel with GFI circuit breakers and
there was no way I could plug in without tripping the shore breaker
which took several pedestals with me.
Arild and I traded many emails and determined that boats and shoreside
GFI were big trouble and notthe way it should be done.  This marina
had a brand new electical system and the electrician wired it like a
land based setup.

There is no way around it unfortunately.

Arild even contacted the provincial engineers and told them about the
problem. The problem may be isolated to Canada because I never had
this problem anywhere else.

Greg and Susan Han
Allegria -- Krogen Whaleback #16



On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff at circlesys.com>
wrote:
> I just left my boat for some repairs at my favorite B.C.
> woodworkers.  Their dock, like some others in B.C., are wired with
> standard 110 outlets.  I plugged into the thing with a 30 amp to 15
> amp adapter.  The bad news is that the outlet had GFCI.  There was no
> way I could plug in my boat without the thing tripping.  I even
> turned off every breaker on my panel.  As soon as I turned the
> double-pole (110 volt) main breaker on, the dock outlet thing would
> trip.  So it appears that the problem is not  not in any individual
> circuit, but somehow after the main breaker.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is  going on here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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