PI EMS-PT30C paid off a couple of days ago.
We went to a fairly new campground. I've had my PI EMS-PT30 for almost three years now. Made sure I had it before my cross country jaunt in Feb 2014. Wednesday, I plugged it in the post, but got ...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Did you let CG Staff know of the OPEN GROUND issue with that pedestal 30A receptacle???
Love my PI.......it has caught several issues when we traveled FT
Has anyone ever accomplished anything by reporting pedestal problems to the CG?
We were at a Thousand Trails CG last year and our EMS shut down on low voltage AND open ground at the same time. Their general purpose handyman got his voltmeter out and insisted nothing was wrong. He said he had replaced the receptacle recently and it couldn't possibly be a problem. Here I am an EE (retired) trying to explain how and why it was a problem. I went to the office and the manager she said she saw some electrical work being done and saw them put bare wires in a trench. She said head office simply won't approve money to fix things.
CGs all too often don't have licensed electricians doing the work. The next time it happens, I might advise the local AHJ or state chief electrical inspector and see what happens.
