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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time2roll wrote:Mike134 wrote:When something is leaking to ground but turned off there is no leak until the RV is powered up with reverse polarity. That is where this comes from. Frequently it is the fridge or water heater. And yes combined with a bad ground.BurbMan wrote:
This has nothing to do with the ground wire or using an extension cord. The outlet that you are plugged into is miswired, where the not/neutral wires are reversed on the outlet.
EVEN IF EVERYTHING IS GROUNDED PROPERLY, PLUGGING INTO A MISWIRED OUTLET WILL STILL SHOCK YOU WHEN YOU TOUCH THE RV.
I've been an electrician for 38 years. Please post an elementary drawing showing how reversed hot and neutral cause the metal chassis of the trailer to become electrified. IT CANNOT.
What he has is a hot wire touching the metal of the coach (neither hot or neutral touch the coach in normal operation because they are insulated) and since the ground wire connection is also missing he/she gets a shock.
Anyway how about share what direction the OP should look first.
Sure go to Post #3 fix that first. Then if the ground path is properly fixed (OP has the skill set to know this?) a breaker will trip in the coach so he can narrow down where he looks for the hot wire touching the metal chassis.
