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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mr_andyj wrote:
I have a panel out of a 1971 camper.
The neutral is grounded at the panel. The neutral is grounded, as many are saying yet others somehow want to disagree with such facts...
What some here are saying is that this code has changed and now the neutral is not supposed to be grounded at the panel?
Should the neutral be un-grounded and let the neutral ground effect take place at the house panel, not the caper panel? Would this help eliminate some possible issues with reverse hot skin?
My history with the code only goes back to 1981 and back then the neutral was only bonded (connected) one time at the incoming service to the ground wire/ground rod/waterpipe.
Not sure if it was ever permitted further "downstream" in older versions of the code. That said I have run across electricians with 45+ years of experience and they still screw up today and connect the neutral to the metal circuit breaker enclosure even though it's a sub panel (like your RV panel)
