(posted 05/17/24)
Up at 6. Morning routines, then Reneé off to the store. Tonight is game night here at Paradise Village.
After breakfast, while washing dishes, I noticed that the water was not very hot. So, I started investigating, and found the shore power plug at the dock was unplugged (actually loose), and that was why the breaker on the boat was off. So, I plugged it back in and turned everything back on. So far so good. Note: we have two shore power circuits, one does most everything like the battery charger, the water heater the AC circuits etc. The other has the Air Conditioner’s, water maker, and washing machine. The second circuit had not tripped.
A few minutes later the supply breaker on the boat tripped off again. I reset it and a few minutes later it tripped again. This time I looked at the battery charger and found that our batteries were at 69% and charging. (With the battery and inverter, we did not lose power to anything important, like the coffee pot), but the water heater doesn’t get powered from the inverter. So, after resetting everything this time I noticed the current on the shore power was right at 30 amps, which is the limit for that circuit. I turned off the water heater for now, and will turn it back on after the battery is fully charged. One of the advantages of LiFePO4 batteries is that they will charge with basically any current you send their way, are charger is limited to 30 amps AC coming in, I will reduce that to 20 amps. We have been at sea or anchored for quite a while, which means that usually the source for the AC power has been our generator which supplies up to 80 amps AC to our distribution system split between the two buses. So, I have kept that limit at 30 amps which works in that condition, just not on shore power.
After lunch and a little more work, we went to the pool to cool off.
Then dinner and game night. Jill & Curt, K0nane & Robert for some Mexican train (dominos).
