GEAR FOCUS
May 12, 2022
4 minutes
PHIL SAMPSON CHECKS OUT PORTABLE POWER STATIONS THAT DELIVER 240V MAINS POWER
When Joni Mitchell sang ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ in her iconic song Big Yellow Taxi, she could have been singing about shore power. For as every yacht owner without an onboard generator discovers, the 240V AC mains supply we take for granted ashore becomes a distant dream whenever you leave the marina. Without mains power to recharge laptops and run kettles, microwaves and the like, life becomes more restricted.
While some might view 240V at sea as something of a luxury – after all, plenty of us have got by without it up until now –
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