Open Ground
Hello all. Just made the jump from my Lance camper, which I loved, to an Alliance Paradigm 310RL. It's a beautiful rig. The day after bringing it home, I was going over the electrical system. It h...
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BB_TX wrote:
If you have an open ground, your GFCI outlets are not going to trip on a ground fault. They require an electrical path to the power source neutral-ground bond to trip. And if you should have a hot wire shorted to ground or RV frame it will not trip the circuit breaker. It will create a hot frame though. None of which are good conditions. .
This is incorrect. GFI outlets work just fine without a ground wire present.
In fact, the NEC allows you to replace old 2 wire outlets in old homes not having ground wires with 3 wire outlets provided you use a GFI outlet.
https://www.ecmweb.com/content/article/20896746/replacing-2wire-ungrounded-receptacles
