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Above my pay grade. 100 amps is a lotta juice, I don’t care who you are.2 50A 125/250V.....pretty common on 48 to 50 feet plus.
Above my pay grade. 100 amps is a lotta juice, I don’t care who you are.2 50A 125/250V.....pretty common on 48 to 50 feet plus.
My insurance company never asked what kind of stove I have nor who has done the work. Interesting.....
Above my pay grade. 100 amps is a lotta juice, I don’t care who you are.
We have a 4 burner propane cooktop and a Samsung portable induction plate .The propane burners are next to hopeless and dont give off 1/4 of the hear a home kitchen cook top dose .The induction is FAST and hot so it now gets used 99% of the time .
Cooktop: 1800 Watts/120volts=15 amps... ok for your breaker. Microwave/convection: 900W/120=7.5 amps.
Some juggling may be necessary while cooking if on 30 amps at the dock. With 5kw or more on Genset should not be an issue. With 30amps should you try using all your appliances, the ac, water heater, All refrigeration. A hair dryer or two along with your toaster oven then yeah, Houston; we have a problem.
I have a 30 amp boat. Planning on going split 50 one of these days and breaking off the air conditioning, perhaps the water heater to another set of optional/stand alone breakers. Refrigeration and everything else is 12volt except water heater and ac. TV and assorted entertainment devices are on inverter 1.5kw. In 3 years only thrown a breaker a couple times and never the main. Wife+hair dryer+ toaster oven or small space heater will do it, Yep every time. :lol: time to adjust. Works for me
Worse case, I go outside and cook on grill and/fryer burner. My genset is very quite however.
Notice Safety was never mentioned. I have sniffer\ alarm and solenoid. I prefer the inductive set up. Now I have the safety devices and 2 aluminum 30lb tanks not needed. As for running Genset, that is what it is for; cooking as a general rule is of short time duration. Good time to cook, top off the batteries, hot shower and so forth.
I do have 1300+ amps of battery fed by both 60amp charger and 750wats of solar.
We have a 4 burner propane cooktop and a Samsung portable induction plate .The propane burners are next to hopeless and dont give off 1/4 of the hear a home kitchen cook top dose .The induction is FAST and hot so it now gets used 99% of the time .
ABYC may have stricts recommendations most of them are common sense and pretty simple. I do not see much trouble in these.Replacing an electric range with a propane range on a boat can be done but it's not just a matter of finding one to fit. The ABYC has very strict specifications on propane installations and for your own safety (forget about insurance companies), they should be followed to the letter.
While an advanced DIYer could do this installation, for most people, a licensed pro would be the best choice. Figure at least $2K for materials plus labor.
My wife and I are looking for a Trawler to live aboard part time in Florida. We both love to cook and gas/propane is our desired choice. Have seen some potential boats online, but with electric stove/oven - not our choice. How difficult is it to go from an electric stove/oven to propane - anyone done it. Seems like the unit sizes are the same, need a gas line run and tanks. Would also like a BBQ outside and a propane burner next to it . Electric stove/oven is a deal breaker for us, but how difficult is it to convert ? Thanks, M&J
Seems to me for the oven part of it, electric and propane are pretty much equivalent?
Just a thought... since I know sometimes one criterion or another can play havoc with shopping.
-Chris
We have a 4 burner propane cooktop and a Samsung portable induction plate .The propane burners are next to hopeless and dont give off 1/4 of the hear a home kitchen cook top dose .The induction is FAST and hot so it now gets used 99% of the time .
I can only speak for my last 2 Force 10 electric 3 burner stoves. The oven seems to have a significant and almost unacceptable temperature swing. A technician came out to adjust the over and broke the stove. I was not a happy camper.
Interesting. I wonder why the temp swings...
Our onboard "oven" is a combination convection/microwave thing... so I don't really have any hands-on experience with any of the "modern" electric boat ovens.
Ours works like a champ, near as we can tell, in either convection, microwave, or combination modes... but it's likely very different from the Force 10 things...
-Chris