superheat6k
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Last week I found the shore supply RCD tripped on the pontoon post, which I traced to the shore power receptacle. Examination of this revealed it to be in fairly shoddy condition.
So after a bit of googling I found a copy version from Furrier at just £11 this was from Furneaux Riddall, and was on clearance offer with 15 in stock. But the description did not make it clear if this was male or female so I only bought one. My Grand Banks has two shore power receptacles - one at each end of the boat, with the fwd one not used much.
Well what arrived on Friday was a simply superb stainless steel receptacle, it was the male required so I thought must get a second, especially as other websites were asking as high as £150 for the thing. Too late all the stock had been cleared.
Now for my question- the receptacle has four connections and is obviously intended for a US two phase 125 / 240v supply, with the Earth on the steel casing. But on my boat the earth is using the white terminal, live is on the red and neutral on the black, with no earth connection to the casing. This matches the two shore power cables that came with the boat.
Is this a normal set up for the UK - I did note the cruddy Hubbell only had three terminals ?
Also as an aside two of the connection lugs on the Furrier had a small bent tang with just one on the Hubbell so I had to saw one of these off to allow the plug to properly marry with the receptacle socket.
Annoyingly the Furrier is a few MM fatter than the Hubbell so today I have to open up the mount hole with nested hole saws.
I will be buzzing through from the shore power cable to double check I get the connections in the positions to match the original and cable, and will ignore the markings from Furrier. Should I connect the earth to the earth case connection also ?
So after a bit of googling I found a copy version from Furrier at just £11 this was from Furneaux Riddall, and was on clearance offer with 15 in stock. But the description did not make it clear if this was male or female so I only bought one. My Grand Banks has two shore power receptacles - one at each end of the boat, with the fwd one not used much.
Well what arrived on Friday was a simply superb stainless steel receptacle, it was the male required so I thought must get a second, especially as other websites were asking as high as £150 for the thing. Too late all the stock had been cleared.
Now for my question- the receptacle has four connections and is obviously intended for a US two phase 125 / 240v supply, with the Earth on the steel casing. But on my boat the earth is using the white terminal, live is on the red and neutral on the black, with no earth connection to the casing. This matches the two shore power cables that came with the boat.
Is this a normal set up for the UK - I did note the cruddy Hubbell only had three terminals ?
Also as an aside two of the connection lugs on the Furrier had a small bent tang with just one on the Hubbell so I had to saw one of these off to allow the plug to properly marry with the receptacle socket.
Annoyingly the Furrier is a few MM fatter than the Hubbell so today I have to open up the mount hole with nested hole saws.
I will be buzzing through from the shore power cable to double check I get the connections in the positions to match the original and cable, and will ignore the markings from Furrier. Should I connect the earth to the earth case connection also ?