Shore power for dummies

[Networker]

[QUOTE=rwidman;3457805]It worries me that you say you converted to 50amp from 30 amp and don't know why and have asked this question. I seriously hope you meant to say that you had a qualified marine electrician do this conversion. It's pretty complicated and involves replacing wires and the electrical panel.

Correct, I didn’t do it, qualified marine electrician did.

[sailcrazy]

also following. Our Asia-built boat was/is set up for 230v 50Hz, 3-wire power. We use a Victorn Auto-sensing Isolation Transformer to convert the 110v 30 amp US power to 230v to run our boat. But at 16amp max draw(230v) we need to watch how much we turn on-we have an electric galley(stove, oven, m/w, etc), an AC(230v) refer system, and 2 aircons (both 230v). Our watermaker is also 230v AC, but we do not run it in a marina.