Freestyle
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- Apr 12, 2005
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- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
- Hatteras Model
- 67' COCKPIT MY (1987 - 1995)
While enjoying the day on board spending money on my stabilizers repair, I sat in the AC and watched Wimbeldon on Sat TV. In a sequence of absurd events, the satellite cut out but kept re-finding its signal every few minutes. The AC's would cut out with Lo Pressure every 15 minutes even thought the strainers were clear and the hoses less than a month old. While annoyed with these problems I stopped to use the head which wouldn't flush and then over flowed. And my Jimmy Dean sausage biscuit refused to cook.
Being a micro thinker, my mate and I addressed each of these issues individually. We replaced the solenoid in the toilet system which is 24 volt. I spent an hour on the phone with the KVH people trying to figure out what would make the TV continually cycle the antennae. We cleaned the AC strainers and pulled the hoses to no avail. I ordered take out from the YC bar to solve the microwave problem and took a break.
With vodka as my guide, it occurred to me that the toilets, AC, head, TV and microwave all had one thing in common in that they ran on electricity even though they were on different voltage systems. So I checked the shore power voltage and discovered that I was getting the best 198 volts my marina could offer instead of the 240 volts I had ordered. Once I fired up the generator and shifted to its power all of my problems went away.
Who knew the toilets, TV, AC's and microwave were such interconnected systems?
Only on a boat.
Bruce
Freestyle
1986 62 CPMY (54 with extension)
Tampa
Being a micro thinker, my mate and I addressed each of these issues individually. We replaced the solenoid in the toilet system which is 24 volt. I spent an hour on the phone with the KVH people trying to figure out what would make the TV continually cycle the antennae. We cleaned the AC strainers and pulled the hoses to no avail. I ordered take out from the YC bar to solve the microwave problem and took a break.
With vodka as my guide, it occurred to me that the toilets, AC, head, TV and microwave all had one thing in common in that they ran on electricity even though they were on different voltage systems. So I checked the shore power voltage and discovered that I was getting the best 198 volts my marina could offer instead of the 240 volts I had ordered. Once I fired up the generator and shifted to its power all of my problems went away.
Who knew the toilets, TV, AC's and microwave were such interconnected systems?
Only on a boat.
Bruce
Freestyle
1986 62 CPMY (54 with extension)
Tampa
It also resulted in a flat DC system since the batteries weren't being charged when I ASSumed they were so all the inverter stuff was running off the inverter/batts when they should have been running through the inverter pass through with shore power. 
