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Old 11-19-2018, 06:03 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by GFC View Post
As a non-electrician, it's frustrating for everything to work fine at one dock, or even several docks, but then not work at the next one. I'm finding it hard to believe this is all on my boat because it works at the majority of docks we stay at, but not Hood River, for example.
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Originally Posted by djmarchand View Post
I have had a couple of experiences with GFCIs tripping on newly rewired docks. It generally occurs with older boats and probably wet or bad wiring is the cause. There is a diagnostic procedure to go through tohelp find the cause, but I won't repeat it here. Do a search. There was a long thread on this topic earlier this year.

IIRC, one posit of that long thread was that if "your boat" trips the new GFCIs, there really is something wrong and it needs fixing... no matter whether "your boat" doesn't seem to have that problem at other older-style dock systems.

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