What is Boating Shore power

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There are two panels. There's the panel for the battery and the panel for shore power. The twelve volt system, or the battery system, is the one down here. Even while you're plugged into shore power all these items on this panel only run if you have the battery turned on. Some of these things are: nave lights; anchor lights; steaming lights; cabin lights; macerator, or the shower sub pump that we showed you before; the bilge pump; freshwater pump; refrigerator, runs off of battery so you can actually use it when you're away from the dock; gas is for the propane; instruments, we can turn off now; and then the auto pilot. When you're hooked up to shore power there is also a switch up here for the battery charger. When you go into shore you hook up the power. You turn the battery charger on and that's going to be charging up the battery as you use all your lights and your refrigeration and all the other items that are on this panel. Before we can turn this panel on we need to hook up the shore power and then turn on the power at the box. The last thing we do is turn the power on here at the boat. As you recall before we left we disconnected the shore power and now we are going to reconnect it. We want to run it through the bow hull pit area. Sometimes it's helpful to have; by the way this is why we don't turn the switch on ahead of time, because the cord could drop into the water. We want to make sure that the cord is not dangling into the water. I like to put a little wrap around one of the cleats just to hold it there, but leave a little slack in the cord. We'll just run it back. If you have enough cord it doesn't hurt to put a wrap around the wench or something, we'll see if we have enough. Now we can plug in our AC power. This has a little L shaped hole here, and there is an L shape. You want to line those up and put it in and give it quarter turn clock wise. That should lock it in. Now we can turn on the dock switch. Steve has turned on the power at the dock box. Now we are going to turn the power on to the boat. We turn on the switch. The breaker called main shore power. Let's do that again, please, sorry. Steve has turned on the power at the dock box so we now have power to the boat. We are now going to turn on power on the boat. We turn on the breaker for the AC main. A couple of the other things that you can use off the AC power are the water heater, if you're at dock you can heat up water for showers. The battery charger, we are going to turn that on because we always leave the battery chargers on on these boats. Then there are outlets. The reasons we leave the outlets on is because in each one of the compartments there is a light bulb outlet and we have a socket that plugs into the outlet and we run a light bulb. The heat of the light bulb is enough to keep the area warm and in a damp marine environment it will keep the boat from mildewing and get that damp boaty smell. We have three light bulbs running in the boat at all times. That is our shore power. That is all taken care of and we've completed our checklist so we're ready to shut down the outside of the boat and wash it down.

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