Lithium Positive and Negative Insurers

[jakew009]

Not how I see it. The problem is insurers are not asking for lithium installations to be installed a suitable standard. If they did, then anybody could installed it to the said standard. You would self certify on this basis. You wouldn't need a marine electrician to sign off.
I can understand why insurers ask for professional installation. There are plenty of enthusiastic DIY electricians who don't know that they don't know.
I guy I know falls into this bracket. He did a schematic of his intended lithium install. OMG! A total disaster. So much wrong. I am not getting involved, but he really has no clue. He says he will get a marine electrician to sign it off. Any marine electrician would be mad to do that if he installs as his schematic.

I agree in principle.

But the question remains: how do you define a professional marine electrician?

 

[Moodysailor]

I agree in principle.

But the question remains: how do you define a professional marine electrician?

There are some qualifications that can be taken which mean someone is trained to meet a set of standards, but I am reading this as you mean a set of national or international standards, of which there are none for leisure vessel marine electricians.

Paul Rainbow said it well on another thread once, in the context of our industry it means someone who can demonstrate they are suitably qualified and/or experienced and work in a professional capacity with requisite insurance.

Think about it in the eyes of the insurers, it’s about being able to prove the person fitting it has some idea what they are doing, and there is some recourse for the insurers, should the worst happen. In the commercial maritime space we have some legally accepted terminology we use in contracts for this. Unfortunately I haven’t seen this wording used in leisure insurance yet.

 

[ylop]

The problem is defining what a marine electrician is

I imagine in the insurance company’s head all that matters is that person had public liability / professional indemnity insurance so that any disaster from poor installation can be claimed from them!

 

[Sea Change]

I imagine in the insurance company’s head all that matters is that person had public liability / professional indemnity insurance so that any disaster from poor installation can be claimed from them!

That's certainly how it works with moorings.