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Smart $ said:
Rather obvious, I'd say... ;)
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I am glad I could help you mild mannered citizen.


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texie said:
While we can and should debate where the GFP protection should be located in the circuit, the situation that the OP has is another matter. My point to him is that there should not be GFCI protection on the shore power outlets. Only GF is required for these and putting GFCI on a shore power outlet is not required or a good practice. In fact if you read the ROP on this for 2011, GFCI protection for shore power was 1 change submitted by Eaton but rejected as being to unreliable to this application. The 100 mA GF protection was approved instead.
The OP seems to indicate that Eaton has told him that the 30 amp outlets of the pedestals are protected with 5 mA GFCI and that is they way they must be. I disagree, that is not a code requirement or a good idea.
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Unfortunately in fresh water 100mA can kill you.

The OP stated that they had no problems with 5mA GFCIs except those boats with some detection equipment. (perhaps in another post).

If we can't get them to use 5mA, I suspect we will try to guide electricians to use 30mA GFE breakers (only $410 list for 1-pole)
 
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