What the heck is this????

[JMYSS]

It can (and was) be running at the dock on shore power. They did not have it run fully up but at what they called a "maintenance" setting of about 40% max power. Apparently because it runs in a vacuum, and takes a while to spin up once it gets up to a "maintenance speed" the draw will drop down. Then in the short amount of time it takes to switch the breaker from shore power to generator or vice versa, it does not slow down enough to really affect it. The 72' Hatt that is thinking of installing it on is running two 20KW generators. Even the full load of 3KW is really nothing when compared to that ships systems....