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Old 12-23-2008
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Originally Posted by goboatingnow View Post
Using a DC source injects a leakage current into teh bilge water, really it should be AC
Leakage?
Explain this to a non-electrical person please?Does it leak all the time or only when the water reaches the switch?

If this is so and your AC switch ground failed could not you have a shocking experance placing one foot in the bildge water and touching a ground?

Confused as useall
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