AC Main Power?

[ssullivan]

Hello All,

Why do I have a feeling I'll be in this Power & Electricity section for the rest of my life??

I had a short today (bad wiring at the factory - left a hot wire dangling in an outlet).

This hot wire ended up grounding to ground (not neutral). Now, I don't appear to be getting power to my main AC panel bus/bar. I am, however, getting power to my shore power cable, and into the shore power receptacles up on deck.

So... somewhere between the shore power cord and the AC main bus on the AC main panel, I am losing my power.

Any ideas? So far, mine are:

1) Blown out shore power socket
2) Some kind of fuse between the shore power socket and the AC main
3) Fried cable between the shore power socket and AC main.

Are there any other variables involved? Anything I might be overlooking?

Interestingly enough... neither the main AC breaker or the smaller breaker to the outlet tripped. The power just went out when the short happened.

Basically, my question is: out of the 3 ideas I have above, do boats commonly have anything else between the shore power socket and the AC main that I'm missing?

I ask because I hope to shave some time off all of the Digital Multimeter fun I will be having in the AM.