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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Mike134 wrote:Gdetrailer wrote:enblethen wrote:
I would not jump out and do anything until the shore power cord is identified whether it is two or three wire! If it is two wire you are asking for problems!
However, I did have a 1981 TT . That panel most definitely had all neutrals and grounds connected via a single ground/neutral buss bar..
So, in reality it is possible to find RVs with 30A shore cord but yet neutral and ground connected together.
That would explain folks saying they got shocked off the "skin" of the trailer when plugged into a receptacle that was wired with reverse polarity.
With today's wiring standard of separately insulted neutral and ground, "reverse polarity" would not cause the skin to become electrified.
Correct!
That trailer would trip my house outside outlets GFCI shortly after a heavy rain storm until I separated the neutral and ground in the RV panel.. Trailer tongue sitting on a soaking wet board surrounded by wet ground = nuisance GFCI trips..
