Advanced Marine Electrics & Electronics Troubleshooting: A Manual for Boatowners & Technicians

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"Ed Sherman is one of America’s great teachers and communicators of marine technology."—Tim Murphy, Executive Editor, Cruising World

Whether you are a marine electronics professional or a boatowner, Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting helps you understand the new, more powerful methods of troubleshooting marine electrical and electronic systems. A modern boat’s sophisticated installations and networked electronics can stretch the traditional diagnostic methods based on trouble lights and multimeters past their useful limits. This book will show you how to:

• Use microprocessor-based diagnostic tools and techniques from the automotive and communications sectors, adapted for boats for the first time
• Diagnose the most difficult AC and DC problems
• Protect communications and navigation electronics from interference and lightning
• Seek out and eliminate stray-current sources and galvanic corrosion

Table of Contents

Foreword by Tim Murphy, Executive Editor, Cruising World | Preface | Acknowledgments

1. MARINE TROUBLESHOOTING the MODERN WAY
Finding Your Way | Electrics versus Electronics | Basic Troubleshooting Steps

Part 1: ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS TROUBLESHOOTING

2. TESTING BATTERIES, CHARGING SYSTEMS, and STARTER CIRCUITS, and MEASURING VOLTAGE DROP
Catalysts for Change | Conductance Battery Tester | Diagnostic Meter | Value and Utility

3. TESTING CONTINUITY and TRACING CIRCUITS
Tone-Generating Circuit Tracer | Alphanumeric Time Domain Reflectometer | Value and Utility

4. TESTING AC and GROUNDING SYSTEMS for POLARITY, VOLTAGE DROP, IMPEDANCE, and FREQUENCY
The SureTest Circuit Analyzer | Value and Utility

5. TEMPERATURE MONITORING as a DIAGNOSTIC AID
Infrared Heat-Sensing Gun | Other Uses for Temperature Monitoring | Value and Utility

6. USING POWER FACTOR to DETERMINE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Understanding Power Factor | Improving Your Power Factor | Determining Power Consumption | Using a Power Analyzer | Value and Utility

7. ANALYZING HARMONIC DISTORTION
Do You Need a Scope? | AC Loads | Harmonic Distortion | Value and Utility

8. USING a LAPTOP for INTERMITTENT PROBLEMS
Laptop Link-Ups | Real-World Examples

9. TESTING for ELECTROMAGNETIC and RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE
Understanding Electromagnetic Interference | Standards and Regulations | Common Sources and Victims of Interference | Tools of the Trade

10. TESTING for RESIDUAL CURRENT and ISOLATING its SOURCES
AC Leakage from Appliances | Using a Clamp-On AC Leak Tester | AC Leakage from Degraded Insulation | Using a Megohmmeter | Value and Utility

11. A BASIC CORROSION SURVEY
Tools of the Trade | Underwater Metal Corrosion and Protection Basics | Conducting a Corrosion Survey

12. GROUNDING SYSTEMS
Lightning Protection | Grounding to Minimize RFI Effects | Comparing ABYC and NMEA Grounding Standards | Troubleshooting Redux

Part 2: MARINE ELECTRONICS INSTALLATION and TROUBLESHOOTING

13. ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION GUIDELINES
Ergonomics | Watertight Integrity | Thermal Limits | Power Supply | Guidelines Summary

14. INSTALLING COMMUNICATIONS and POSITION-FINDING SYSTEMS and RADAR
Communications Systems | Position-Finding Systems | Radar

15. INSTALLING DEPTH SOUNDERS, WEATHER SYSTEMS, and AUTOPILOTS
Depth Sounders | Wind- and Weather-Monitoring Instruments | Autopilots

16. COAXIAL CABLE and ANTENNAS
Coaxial Cable Basics | Choosing Coax for Marine Applications | Installing Coaxial Cable | VHF Antennas | SSB Antennas | Satellite Television and Radio Antennas | Cell Phone Antennas | Radar Antennas

17. ONBOARD NETWORKS
Network Types | NMEA 2000 | Troubleshooting | The Future of Onboard Power Distribution | Closing Thoughts

Appendix A: Metric Equivalents | Appendix B: Resources | Appendix C: ABYC Standards of Interest to Marine Electricians and Boatowners

Glossary | List of Acronyms | Index

About the Author

Ed Sherman is a regular contributor to Professional Boatbuilder and Cruising World and a senior staff writer for the American Boat & Yacht Council. Ed has also authored or coauthored three other books about marine electrical systems and engines.

Advanced Marine Electrics & Electronics Troubleshooting: A Manual for Boatowners & Technicians