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Old 09-11-2008
SteveInMD SteveInMD is offline
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I'll stick with my statement. If you have no load on the shore cord, such as the main breaker on the boat being off, it wont arc. The video is not an accurate representation of what's happening on the dock because there's voltage threshold effect that we don't meet in the dock example.
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