[C38] How I almost lost our '38

[PAUL NOTTE]

There have been three serious marina fires in B.C. since it started to get cold up here. Just a reminder to myself to follow through and finish one job before I go on to another. I plad to have one outlet on the boat one it's own circuit just for things like a heater or electric kettle etc. I really would like to have to worry about air conditioning and not having to keep my self warm. we still have one kid at home so we won't be venturing south for at least three more years.

  Regards Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: Max Soto <maxsoto at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009 7:48 am
Subject: Re: [C38] How I almost lost our '38
To: Catalina 38 Listserve <listserve at catalina38.org>

> Hi Paul,
> 
> You are lucky that you were there on time!!
> 
> I just installed an air conditioning unit on Estancia, and had 
> to install a
> separate breaker, according to the last AC wire diagram from 
> catalina, the
> AC outlets should have a separate breaker, so I installed a 
> breaker for the
> air conditioning, another for the water heater (which I don't 
> have), and
> another for the outlets, and left the original AC breaker as an 
> AC master
> breaker,
> 
> If you are talking about positive wires, I guess you are talking 
> about the
> DC power and it also sounds very wise to separate the circuits, 
> just like
> Les did with his light on Jace. He separated port and starboard light
> circuits, so if one has a problem the other will still be providing
> illumination.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Max Soto
> C38 #198 ESTANCIA
> Puntarenas, Costa Rica
> 
> 
> 2009/12/5 PAUL NOTTE <panotte at shaw.ca>
> 
> >        We have owned 
> Impulse exactly one year today. One of the first
> > things we did was to install a new shore panel with newer 
> circuit breakers,
> > not only did it look great, it allowed me to put the hot water 
> heater and
> > the battery on their own separate breakers. I left ALL the 
> cabin outlets on
> > one breaker and moved on to other things I thought needed 
> attention first.
> >     I have been trying to spend one night 
> a week on the boat , I find this
> > gives me some time alone and being somewhat obsessive 
> compulsive I get to
> > take things apart and put them back together,it's how I learn. 
> I have a rule
> > that when I leave the boat I close all the sea cocks and turn 
> off the power
> > , I think it's a good rule . On Tuesday after spending the 
> night on the boat
> > I decided to walk up to the coffee shop and left a small 
> ceramic heater
> > plugged in to the left side V berth outlet , when I returned 
> about an hour
> > later I could smell burnt wiring. Following my nose it led me 
> to the head,
> > the outlet there was warm to the touch ,did I mention the 
> breaker had not
> > tripped. I shut off the breaker pulled out the plug and found 
> the positive
> > wire had melted back from the plug for about two inches then 
> melted the
> > positive wire.
> >      I have room for three more 
> breakers in my new panel so I'm going to
> > split up the circuits like I should have when I put in the new 
> panel and
> > main feed. I will also follow my own rules in the future.\
> >
> > Paul  Impulse
> >
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