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Rewiring Sooners AC Part 4

August 21, 2022Matt 1 Comment

Sorry about the gaps between posts – dealing with some personal stuff and it’s really hard to get motivated to write. Anyway, onto the post… So on my last post I had confidently declared ‘The last part of the AC… Continue reading →

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Rewiring Sooner’s AC: Part 3

February 16, 2022Matt 1 Comment

The last part of the AC rewiring project was to replace the panel. The old panel looked like this Of note, there is only one on/off breaker type, the rest are push button meaning that there was no way to… Continue reading →

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Rewiring Sooner’s AC: Part 2

February 4, 2022Matt 3 Comments

After I got the smartplug and galvanic isolator installed, it was time to tackle the inside bits of the 120 volt system. The first order of business was to replace the 3 AC outlets with GFCIs. These are the things… Continue reading →

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Rewiring Sooner’s AC: Part 1

January 19, 2022Matt 2 Comments

Sooner’s wiring is unfortunately standard issue ‘old boat wiring’ which is to say, pretty bad (see previous blog post on the state of gudges wiring) and sorting that out would be the first priority, as ‘fire’ is one of the… Continue reading →

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Installing external Outlet

August 14, 2014Matt Leave a comment

Ok, so this isn’t really external (it’s under the port sideĀ LazaretteĀ and still therefore covered) but it was outside the main cabin and therefore needed some extra measures taken. This was going to be where the battery charger plugged in –… Continue reading →

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Installing the Galvanic Isolator and finishing off the AC

June 6, 2014Matt 1 Comment

With the panel mounted, and all the outlets wired, the only thing left to do was to install the galvanic isolator and connect the outlet wires to the panel. First, the GI, which looks like this.   This interrupts the… Continue reading →

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Mounting the panel – part 3

June 2, 2014Matt Leave a comment

Next up – sanding and painting   I didn’t take many photos here, because I was too busy trying not to drip paint everywhere. Here you can see i’ve taped off the parts I don’t want painted however. Chloe did… Continue reading →

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Mounting the panel – part 2

May 28, 2014Matt Leave a comment

Next day – more panel work. It didn’t quite fit, so I cut some more holes to slightly customize the hole, ending up with   Next, I filled all the holes with marine-tex (with the exception of the big circular… Continue reading →

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