COE Private Boat Dock regulation change

[Quillback]

Going to make recharging trolling motor batteries interesting, especially at night.

[MoCarp]

Pushing the 'green agenda' the tech is there but it will cost to deploy

[dblades]

Most of the ocean liner type boats have power generators onboard, so it shouldn't affect them as much as the smaller dock owners. The dock I use is already solar powered, but I don't keep the fishing boat there since I can't charge batteries.

[bobby b.]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Going to make recharging trolling motor batteries interesting, especially at night.

Also will be a problem in the winter with a few days in a row of heavy cloud cover - my neighbor has a roof solar system that costs $30,000 and on average he gets on 20% output in the winter.  Our little subdivision has a 16 slip dock with pretty heavy usage at times.  We are estimating $10,000 in order to assure to run all the boat lifts and have enough batteries to make it thru the cloudy periods and the nights.

[bobby b.]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

Pushing the 'green agenda' the tech is there but it will cost to deploy

I'm told it's not about the green agenda but rather electrical safety - but 120 vac is the same wherever it comes.  If it is the green agenda driving this that's really stupid because these private docks don't use any power compared to the other users of the world.  Besides " the Donald" has shown his true colors regarding the environment.  I'm betting he doesn't know about this.  Maybe I should write to him.

[bfishn]

There's no reason you couldn't incorporate boat batteries in the dock's storage system, keeping the batteries charged and alternately providing lift & lighting power in return. You'd still want some permanent dock batteries, but wouldn't need as many. 

[Rodmaker]

It wouldn't seem to me that for a private dock (12 to 20 slips) that it would take a very sophisticated solar system to run it. Your looking at lights, outlets at slips and boat lifts, used sporadically at best. It would take a much larger solar array with a considerably higher battery storage capacity to even run a private home. Being a slip owner, this news concerns me, but at least the dock I'm on doesn't store any "tuna" rigs! 

[bobby b.]

37 minutes ago, Rodmaker said:

It wouldn't seem to me that for a private dock (12 to 20 slips) that it would take a very sophisticated solar system to run it. Your looking at lights, outlets at slips and boat lifts, used sporadically at best. It would take a much larger solar array with a considerably higher battery storage capacity to even run a private home. Being a slip owner, this news concerns me, but at least the dock I'm on doesn't store any "tuna" rigs! 

We have a very small solar panel with batteries to operate an electric switch on our gate lock and during some cloudy days in the winter the switch would not operate due to discharged batteries - we had to add more batteries.

I think we will be very unhappy with the cost and operation of this - but hey maybe they will rethink this before the 10 years are up. (the COE think - what am I thinking!!!)

[Quillback]

11 minutes ago, bobby b. said:

We have a very small solar panel with batteries to operate an electric switch on our gate lock and during some cloudy days in the winter the switch would not operate due to discharged batteries - we had to add more batteries.

I think we will be very unhappy with the cost and operation of this - but hey maybe they will rethink this before the 10 years are up. (the COE think - what am I thinking!!!)

I would be surprised if this originated from the COE, I could be wrong about that, but I have to believe this came from "above".

[magicwormman]

15 minutes ago, Quillback said:

I would be surprised if this originated from the COE, I could be wrong about that, but I have to believe this came from "above".

I heard that it came from the Russians!