Boaters Guide to AC Electrical
Many seasoned boaters have an aversion to using AC Electrical around boats in marinas.
Water. Electricity. That’s a natural concern.
Marinco has been designing, building and supplying the best marine AC electrical products since 1972. Safety is always the first concern. And the best way to ensure safe shore power product usage is through training and education.
Marinco makes it easy to know how to use these products. They publish a great booklet entitled: “Boaters Guide to AC Electrical”, known around the marketplace as the “Shore Power Manual”. It’s the definitive resource when it comes to shore power. This guide drills out the mystery and concern, with straight-forward, easy-to-understand tips on AC Electrical.
You can order this booklet by visiting their website: http://www.marinco.com/view/96/guides
Editor’s Note: John Tinghitella formerly VP Sales / Marketing for the Marinco Electrical Group spent many years in the trenches of the marine electrical products market. He’s moved on and now runs the hottest negotiation training group in the business.
ParkPower to the People!
In our last post entitled “Shore Power Basic”, we discussed the typical AC electrical system for boats. In recent years, Marinco has brought their range of top notch, harsh environment electrical wiring devices to the RV market as well. Boats and RV’s are more than just “near neighbors”. A disproportionate number of RV’ers are also boaters. The two activities are highly synergistic.
Historically RV’s used a “hard-wired” AC hookup arrangement. That means a 30 amp or 50 amp powercord is permanently hard-wired into the system, as opposed to a marine application in which powercords are “detached” from the inlet and stored out of sight.
Over the years Marinco successfully convinced a good number of RV OEM’s (Manufacturers) to embrace the detachable concept. Inlets were typically mounted in storage compartments or on the side of the coaches, and mated up with the RV style powercord (male end straight blade device, as opposed to marine “locking style”). To make it retro-fittable for existing hard wired users, Marinco developed a Conversion Kit that easily allows the consumer to shift to a detachable hookup system.
This all happened under the ParkPower brand which was devoted to RV applications only. The products are available at your favorite retailer or on the web at www.marinco.com
Editor’s Note: John Tinghitella formerly VP Sales / Marketing for the Marinco Electrical Group spent many years in the trenches of the marine electrical products market. He’s moved on and now runs the hottest negotiation training group in the business.
