obthomas
Guru
- Joined
- May 16, 2013
- Messages
- 560
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- TheVenture
- Vessel Make
- 1985 Bestway Labelle Sundeck 40ft
I just made some shore power changes on my boat and noted that I do not have a galvanic isolator before the green shore wire lands on the green on-board grounding buss. Dutifully I bid on and won a 60 amp Quicksilver fail safe variety of galvanic isolator on Ebay. Meanwhile I was reading up on installation and also noted that one needs to test these things from time especially if they are not the fail-safe or monitored variety. So hold on I am getting to my question.....Since my fail safe galvanic isolator is not monitored and I would like to know if my galvanic isolator is working properly and some diodes are not blown leaving me and some swimmers without protection...... why couldn't I just wire up a receptacle next to and right after my quicksilver galvanic isolator and use one of them there yellow plug-in testers? You know they cost about a dollar and have three lights that tell you if the power to the receptacle is right?