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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It is not uncommon for the "Skin" of an RV to have 60 volts RMS on it. Now you ask why.
People do not understand the value of the 3rd Wire.. (Safety Ground) and you have an open ground.. A Three Light Outlet Tester should show two Green and NO red lights. if it shows only one green or all 3,,,, You have an open ground.
If you plug in at home to an old two wire outlet using an adapter. You have an open ground
If the Green wire breaks. Open ground
If some (exeplative deleted) switched a 2 wire outlet to 3 wire so you could plug in Open ground
GFCI power source you MAY have an open ground but in this case it should trip soon as you touch the RV. (no shock, Have tested)
Why:
Well most folks when thinking of electricity think DC and usually that's good but AC has a few Quirks.. one is that it can travel THROUGH insulation in some cases.. The device is called a capacitor or condenser (Capacitor is the more proper name)
It consists of two pieces of metal with an insulator (or air) between
Like the Black Wire, and the Bare wire in a piece of ROMEX cable
Or the Bare wire and the White wire.
The Bare wire is hooked to the frame/chassis/ground
The black and white have 120 volts between them so you have
0---| | |---120
Well the wire in the middle.. 60 volts.
People do not understand the value of the 3rd Wire.. (Safety Ground) and you have an open ground.. A Three Light Outlet Tester should show two Green and NO red lights. if it shows only one green or all 3,,,, You have an open ground.
If you plug in at home to an old two wire outlet using an adapter. You have an open ground
If the Green wire breaks. Open ground
If some (exeplative deleted) switched a 2 wire outlet to 3 wire so you could plug in Open ground
GFCI power source you MAY have an open ground but in this case it should trip soon as you touch the RV. (no shock, Have tested)
Why:
Well most folks when thinking of electricity think DC and usually that's good but AC has a few Quirks.. one is that it can travel THROUGH insulation in some cases.. The device is called a capacitor or condenser (Capacitor is the more proper name)
It consists of two pieces of metal with an insulator (or air) between
Like the Black Wire, and the Bare wire in a piece of ROMEX cable
Or the Bare wire and the White wire.
The Bare wire is hooked to the frame/chassis/ground
The black and white have 120 volts between them so you have
0---| | |---120
Well the wire in the middle.. 60 volts.
