[Rhodes22-list] Electrical Issue with 2017 Rhodes 22

[Peter Nyberg]

My boat was recycled in 2016.  I've rewired most of it by this point, but as I recall, when I got the boat there was definitely a lack of adequate circuit breakers.  There should be a properly rated fuse as close to each battery or bank of batteries as you can manage.  Definitely within a foot.  I chose a 40 amp MRBF fuse because that's the max capacity of the electrical breaker/switch panel.  

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)


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> On 2024-11-03, at 09:35:21 EST, Tom Galbreath wrote:
>
> I purchased a showboat from Stan in 2019, the boat was constructed in 2017.  
> Recently when switching the power on in the boat, I experienced an extreme 
> electrical short that caused my cables to meltdown between the batteries.  I 
> fear I was close to having the boat catch fire, I managed to remove the cables 
> from the battery while using fire extinguisher and battling smoke inhalation.  I 
> hired a certified marine electrician, and he found many issues with the wiring 
> including lack of adequate circuit breakers, use of automotive wiring and not 
> marine rated wiring.   He also found GFCI line and load reversed. 
> 
> I was fortunate to meet and visit Stan and know this is not what he intended for 
> his beloved Rhodes 22, I fear the quality control was absent in his later years. 
>  I wanted to get this information out to owners and suggest you might want to 
> have a qualified marine electrician review your wiring.  Hopefully, my situation 
> was a one-off scenario. 
> 
>