Electrical Shock!!
Today I was working around my MH. I had a basin of water and was cleaning out my outdoor storage compartments. Of course my hands were wet as I was cleaning and I kept feeling a pinch when I grazed a...
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john&bet wrote:tenbear wrote:Mine was a bare wires touching the frame and each other. Don't know if ground broken or not. Fixed under warranty.
You don't have to have a shorted wire to build up a charge on the camper. There can be enough capacitive coupling to build a considerable voltage on the camper. The current is very limited however so usually there is no harm done. However, there is always a chance that there is a shorted wire or some other problem creating the voltage on the camper, so you should always find the cause instead of just ignoring it.
Yup. There IS a spaghetti mess of wires run under these RV's right from the factory.
I spent countless hours and actually paid for service calls to figure out why my running light didn't work.
One day when I was on the ground putting leveler blocks under the back tires I noticed a wire hanging low. Come to find out they run those wires from side to side wrapped across on the frame. And what a sloppy pp job of doing it. :R
