I do have an EPO in the marina I am at. If memory serves, I think all of
the major marina I moored at had something.
As it is NOT standardized per any electrical code, I think it is put there
to facilitate electrical repairs.
The one at my marina shuts down the water part, but NOT the yard part. The
yard does not have an EPO.
The marinas do NOT advertise that there is an EPO. They somehow gauge and
judge you before letting you know. People that stay the winter are more apt
to know about. Daily transiets not.
The EPO breaker is huge. It is completely manual.
Normally, at my marina, if electrical work is needed, power to the complex
is turned off, the EPO opened (you can hear the thud throughout the marina)
and then power restored.
I cannot IMAGINE what I would see / feel if that EPO had to be opened
under load.
Lee
PS: for marinas with multiple docks, there is one at the head of the pier,
in a box, closed with a lockwire, with a camera monitor. There is a red and
green buttin to push that activates relays to shutdown that dock's power.
This is what I remember at new marinas. It is has been too long that I have
stayed at an old marina where electrical power to the docks appears to be
an afterthought.
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> I do have an EPO in the marina I am at. If memory serves, I think all of
> the major marina I moored at had something.
As it is NOT standardized per any electrical code, I think it is put there
to facilitate electrical repairs.
The one at my marina shuts down the water part, but NOT the yard part. The
yard does not have an EPO.
The marinas do NOT advertise that there is an EPO. They somehow gauge and
judge you before letting you know. People that stay the winter are more apt
to know about. Daily transiets not.
The EPO breaker is huge. It is completely manual.
Normally, at my marina, if electrical work is needed, power to the complex
is turned off, the EPO opened (you can hear the thud throughout the marina)
and then power restored.
I cannot IMAGINE what I would see / feel if that EPO had to be opened
under load.
Lee
PS: for marinas with multiple docks, there is one at the head of the pier,
in a box, closed with a lockwire, with a camera monitor. There is a red and
green buttin to push that activates relays to shutdown that dock's power.
This is what I remember at new marinas. It is has been too long that I have
stayed at an old marina where electrical power to the docks appears to be
an afterthought.
