RV Hot Skin (Exterior electrification)
This past weekend my wife was electrocuted when she stepped onto the trailer steps and grabbed the handrail while in bare feet. She was subsequently thrown from the rig and landed in the grass. She ...
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The green safety ground wire has everything to do with hot skin. The safety ground wire ties the RV frame directly to earth ground preventing it from maintaining any voltage differential to ground and therefore no hot skin. A hot wire fault to a grounded frame will trip a breaker.
Devices with plugs with only two prongs (no ground wire) are inherently designed to be shock protected. Most have plastic cases.
Devices with plugs with only two prongs (no ground wire) are inherently designed to be shock protected. Most have plastic cases.
