2 Questions Vacu Flush & Power

[Sea Bandit]

New to site, I newly acquired a 1988 300 Sea Ray Weekender and I have a question regarding electrical power on the boat. The generator has been removed, my question is when the turn knob is turned to shore power, and shore power is disconnected, does the bopat automatically go to battery power? Since the generator has been removed, is there a time I would ever turn the knob on the electrical panel to Ship power?

2nd question, maybe related to 1st, I moved the boat from one slip to another, disconnected the shore power, but did not change the knob from shore power to ships power. Now my vacu flush toilet is not working, could this be related?\

Any and all ideas welcomed

 

[Alegria]

I am a bit confused by your question. You are talking apples and oranges. Shore power is AC and ship power is DC.

The switch from AC to DC is usually done at the equipment level. What I mean is if you have say a frig on the boat and it is hooked up to AC and DC then it will switch over automatically to DC when you disconnect the AC.

If you have say a TV or Microwave that is AC only when you disconnect AC shore power it's not going to run at all.

If you don't have a genny installed and you switch over to ship power there is nothing there.

 

[sbw1]

New to site, I newly acquired a 1988 300 Sea Ray Weekender and I have a question regarding electrical power on the boat. The generator has been removed, my question is when the turn knob is turned to shore power, and shore power is disconnected, does the bopat automatically go to battery power? Since the generator has been removed, is there a time I would ever turn the knob on the electrical panel to Ship power?

2nd question, maybe related to 1st, I moved the boat from one slip to another, disconnected the shore power, but did not change the knob from shore power to ships power. Now my vacu flush toilet is not working, could this be related?\

Any and all ideas welcomed

If you are not connected to shore power, your boat is running on batteries without the charger running. When you are plugged in the charger may or may not be charging your batteries (it has to be turned on) and you are powering your 110 appliances. Your head is 12 volts and runs on batteries all the time.