Generator instalation.

[Bob Rowe]

I am new here and also to Sea Ray. I just purchased a 2006 280 dancer and was wondering if anyone knows about a generator instalation. If it can be done fairly easily? Aproxx cost. And anything else that might be helpful from anyone that has done it?

Thanks
Bob

 

[tobnpr]

Welcome aboard.
Recent threads on the subject- do a search.

 

[Presentation]

We added a generator to our 280 Sundancer a year ago.

Please see this post.
http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6788&highlight=skipper



Just to get you in the ballpark, you are talking at least $7,000 if you do it yourself using the least expensive alternative and about $12,500 if you have it done and go with the largest low CO generator that will fit in your boat.

We spent $8,500. We had it installed for us. I selected the Westerbeke MPV 3K gas generator with the built in catalytic converter.

From experience, we can simultaneously run the AC, electric stove and microwave. Alternatively, keep the electric stove and microwave off and turn on everything else (water heater + inverter + my laptop charger plugged into a AC plug) and you are good to go. Also, turn on only the AC and run a cord from our boat to another boat during a terribly hot night and you can run both AC units from the one generator. (I am not saying this was safe, just saying what we did) I don’t know if I could have gone further (higher load), we never once popped the circuit breaker.

Keep in mind; our boats have a 30 Amp shore power system. So if we are plugged in at the dock we get a maximum of 30 Amps. This generator is a 25 Amp system. So you have close to your maximum electrical capacity that you would have had being plugged into shore power.

 

[Bob Rowe]

Thanks i will check it out.