We discovered that our shore power plug had a BAD burn. Not good. We are not sure when this happened or specifically why but it did. But no worries, we have a spare cord that came with the boat.
Uh-Oh. Spare (which we have never used) is burnt too. Traditionally shore power cords are designed badly given all the things that can and do go wrong in other words - DUMB plugs!
Since we have to replace it, we decided to invest in a SmartPlug. I say invest because as with all new tech stuff, it's $$$. However, it's good stuff.
It finally arrived (after a week -argh West Marine) and we installed it today. Voila -AC power!
If you are interested, be sure to check out why they are so good at SmartPlug.com
*One note - on the power cord side of the plug, there is one design weakness...there are three clear plastic clips that are supposed to help keep the green, black and white wires in place. Our SmartPlug arrived with two of the three already broken off. Of course we didn't discover this until we were getting ready to install. We went ahead and installed it anyway since we have already been waiting a week. Hopefully in the future the SmartPlug boyz will figure out a better material for those three clips than the flimsy plastic that they are made of now. So if you get one, check that immediately to be sure yours are intact.
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