Stray Voltage?
My RV has a stray voltage problem, and I'm wondering if anyone has any good ideas on how to find or fix the problem. My daughter complained to my wife that she thought she was getting shocked when ...
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Mike_Sokol wrote:
However, note that adding a ground rod next to your RV does virtually NOTHING to actually "ground" your RV. The confusion is that the same word "ground" is used for a lot of different things in the electrical business, many of which have nothing to do with earth ground.
This statement would seem to be in direct conflict with the previous paragraph that talks about the N-G-E connection that occurs at the service entrance.
In normal commercial power applications is it NOT recommended that an earth ground be applied at each distribution box also ? While connected to shore power, why would that not be a good thing to do with an RV too ?
I'm pretty sure that a "mobile home" parked in a fixed location and permanently connected to commercial power WOULD have an earth ground applied at the distribution box.....or the metal frame.
