At 07:21 PM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote: >Al Pilvinis wrote: >> ><snip> Crank up your genny, warm it up >> and put on a medium load of a couple of thousand watts, set your little >> volt meter on 120V AC scale and take one test prod and plug it into the hot >> side of an outlet on board your boat and take the other test prod and plug >> it into the hot side of the extension cord that you brought in off the >> dock, polarity unimportant.<snip> > >Al, > >Nice trick. Is there an easy way of knowing which side is the hot side >without taking the outlets apart to check for the black wire? (I think >the black wire is the hot wire). Sorry, I'm no electrician but I can >follow instructions and I do have an inexpensive analog VOM. Thanks. ======================================================= Mel I have a little neon test lite and I hold the end of one prod in my fingers and stick the other into the socket. The one that lites is the hot one. I have never felt even the slightest tingle. Otherwise there are only 4 holes, a matter of elimination. If you used a test lite instead of a meter I wonder if it would flicker---I don't think it would work because it would go out as the voltage drops as you approach sync . Captain Al Pilvinis "M/V Driftwood"--Prairie 47 2630 N.E. 41st Street Lighthouse Point, Fl 33064-8064 Voice 954-941-2556 Fax 954 788-2666 Email - CaptainAl@Juno.com Website http://home.earthlink.net/~yourcaptain