David Hughes
Senior Member
Had guests on my boat last week, and while at anchor in Pelican Bay, Cayo Costa, FL ( hot as blazes), after about 10 hours of running the Air Con units, smoke began pouring out of the engine room- more specifically the generator sound containment box, and even more specifically the windings end of the generator. It was a LOT of smoke. They shut down the gen, donned life jackets are were nearly ready to jump. The smoke soon abated after shutdown and they spent the remaining couple of days at South Seas and Tween Waters so they could run shore power. All that is preamble to my question: Has this happened to anyone else and did you have to spend the $4000 for the new stator/windings unit, or did you have it simply rewound by someone. If rewound, about what should that cost? Tomorrow, Gulf Coast Marine Electric ( who I like and trust) is coming over to look, but it would nice to not be a complete ignoramus about it. Thanks!