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:mr_andyj wrote:Yes the neutral bus and ground bus in an RV should be separated. RV panel is a sub-panel.
It is plugged in now so dont want to take it apart just yet, but best I remember is it did look factory, not just wires going in odd places, the neutral looked like it was factory made to be grounded where it was, but I cant say for sure that it was not just grounded to the ground bar.
Nonetheless, would it be wise to unground it? That would mean the neutral is only connected to the neutral of the extension cord, not the ground of the panel that connects to the ground of the extension cord.
I can do electrical just fine, but am not an electrician that knows the codes.
Neutral-ground bond should only be made at the main power source panel supplied by the utility transformer.
Existing old electrical systems are "Grandfathered", as long as you do not mess with it, it is Grandfathered and does not require you to update the wiring to modern codes.
Is it ideal? no.
Would it be good to correct, sure, if possible.
Although before going through that hassle, verify that the buss used is not "split", sometimes those buss bars in RV panels are jammed in there so close but may be two separate Busses.
If that is the case, all grounds will be on one side of the buss and neutrals on the opposite side. If grounds and neutrals are mixed in any order on that buss then yeah, the grounds and neutrals are connected together.
To correct, you may need a isolated Buss bar which comes with isolated pedastool, looks like this..
Found HERE
Put all the neutrals on the isolated buss bar and all the grounds on the existing buss bar (provided that bar is bonded to the metal panel).
Can you take a picture of the buss you have?
