“Safe” and “User friendly” are descriptions which have always been difficult to combine when designing a product. Sleipner are therefore proud to introduce a new Side-Power Automatic Main Switch / Fuse combination which manages to incorporate both improved safety and user friendliness.

For safety reasons electric thrusters must have a fuse and a main switch / circuit breaker in the main power feed circuit. When there is an abnormal current consumption in the circuit the fuse will blow, but situations can arise when the fuse will not blow and it becomes necessary, for the safety of the crew, boat and those around, to shut down the main power to the thruster.

The problem is that in most marine cases the main power switch / circuit breaker is a manual switch located in the bilge, technical room or even the engine for boats room so that you will have to leave the control position to shut it off. Even powerboats with remote-controlled main breakers might not be easy to shut down either. This because these breakers often support more than just the thruster so that shutting it down will also shut down other systems that you might need to be operational.