Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Well, none of the pictures turned out. The port engine looks just like the starboard, it's just on the other side. We were waiting for parts to get it hooked up. They were overnighted on Tuesday to arrive here on Wednesday. They weren't here by shop closing time, but Linda just happened to be outside when the UPS truck pulled up, so she went running. The driver was very nice & said that he called the shop manager & told him he had a package but the shop manager told him not to bother after 4:00 p.m. because no one would be there. However, the driver said he felt like if someone had it overnighted they must need it, so he came anyway thankfully. So with that, Ray had the port engine running in no time. The only remaining glitch was that the generator was running but not powering up the boat. Earlier in the day Ray called an electrician friend to get his advise. We assumed the wires must not have been hooked up correctly. With this bigger generator, there is not much clearance from the top of it to the floor, and guess where those wires are. So Ray cut another hole in the floor of the salon to access them, but everything looked right according to the electrician also. In Linda reading the manual (because guys don't do that), we learned that the display panel on the generator showed several bits of information if you scrolled through it, including how many volts the generator was putting out. So Ray fired it up again and scrolled to find that the generator was putting out the 120 volts it was supposed to be. We tried the electrical panel with no luck. Then Ray decided to flip the breaker on the generator, and vualah, everything was working. Now before you jump to the "duh!" conclusion, let it be said that on the breaker he had it switched to green assuming that would be on. Well, I guess in Japan red means on. So the moral of the story...there was no need to cut a hole in the floor!
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