Effect of High Tension Power Lines
In our area, many of the RV storage centers (including mine) are located under high tension power transmission lines. When parked under the lines, touching any metal part of my 5th wheel gives me qui...
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Just remember the only RV real grounding you have is when you are plugged into a properly wired 120VAC PEDESTAL or house receptacle. The normal place for your RV wiring GREEN wire to go to Earth ground is through the facility (or home) wiring.
If you are NOT plugged into a 120VAC Pedestal at the facility or at home then you may want to add a simple ground on your your own if the RV is parked for long term.
This could be as simple as a chain hanging from the RV main frame and touching ground or a more sophisticated Earth Ground Rod approach. The GROUND ROD approach will have to remembered when you move the RV TRAILER so I suspect a sign of some sort would be required to remind you to remove the ground rod wiring before moving the trailer. The RV trailer may have some protection already added with the trailer tongue jack touching the Earth ground. Same with stabilizing Jacks being deployed when parked. A parked Motorhome parked would most likely have less induced power protection being the RV Frame is isolated from ground by the rubber tires.
Along this line of having an ungrounded RV is if it was struck by lightning it would probably do damage to all of your electronics inside. This would probably still happen whether it was grounded or not but at least being grounded would be some protection from lightning.
I have witnessed one event where a car was struck by lightning sitting in the driveway and the whole car was engulfed in a bluish corona which you could see dissipating down the sidewalls of the tires during the heavy rain storm that was present at the time. After the storm passed all of the car on-board computers and other electronics aboard was zapped and had to be replaced. Even the car radio was zapped.
Just some of my thoughts and experiences here for what ever it is worth to you.
Roy Ken
If you are NOT plugged into a 120VAC Pedestal at the facility or at home then you may want to add a simple ground on your your own if the RV is parked for long term.
This could be as simple as a chain hanging from the RV main frame and touching ground or a more sophisticated Earth Ground Rod approach. The GROUND ROD approach will have to remembered when you move the RV TRAILER so I suspect a sign of some sort would be required to remind you to remove the ground rod wiring before moving the trailer. The RV trailer may have some protection already added with the trailer tongue jack touching the Earth ground. Same with stabilizing Jacks being deployed when parked. A parked Motorhome parked would most likely have less induced power protection being the RV Frame is isolated from ground by the rubber tires.
Along this line of having an ungrounded RV is if it was struck by lightning it would probably do damage to all of your electronics inside. This would probably still happen whether it was grounded or not but at least being grounded would be some protection from lightning.
I have witnessed one event where a car was struck by lightning sitting in the driveway and the whole car was engulfed in a bluish corona which you could see dissipating down the sidewalls of the tires during the heavy rain storm that was present at the time. After the storm passed all of the car on-board computers and other electronics aboard was zapped and had to be replaced. Even the car radio was zapped.
Just some of my thoughts and experiences here for what ever it is worth to you.
Roy Ken
