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Old 09-23-2014, 10:28 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by obthomas View Post
The neutrals are connected on the boat because my generator is set up as 120V and it has only one neutral and one hot, and all the 120 AC works when on generator.
That's the way mine was wired also...

I'm still thinking through the obvious safety issues pointed out by the video and Boatpoker...the only issue I can see is if you do have some electrical issue where power is still feeding through to a neutral and if tied toether it isn't interrupted when you cut that buss off (main breaker).

In our case where the genset is both hot and neutral and feeding both sides...probably the main breakers don't matter...just the breaker from the genset that if cut cuts everything anyhow...not just one buss.

When on a 120/250 system and cutting off one buss...I'm assuming any issue would go back to landside and not backfeed anything on the boat.

Again..Ive been too bust to pen it all out to fully understand all possibilitis and "Y" cords..but I can see the basic ABYC assumption.
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