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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Yes it's a digital but only a harbor freight unit, but it does read 0 when the tips are touched together in the ohms setting, and the voltage does read 120V when in the A/C volts setting and hooked into the receptacle, and 0 when not touching anything, and no I don't trust that the readings are super accurate but probably not horibly off due to the fact that when I did touch the red lead to a positive and the black in the dirt I still got 100V as compared to the 120V that I got when connecting the black to the neutral side.
So far when I was reading the prongs on my 50a power cord, I got a .5ohm reading from the ground/round prong to the bare metal on the RV (a bolt on a compartment door hinge) that I was testing from, so according to a few posters it should be good if less than 1ohm. When connecting from the groud/round prong and trying to read through to the other prongs on the plug I was reading infinite. I do have a transfer switch/surge protector built into the RV and it may have been shut off as it only seems to click once the breaker is turned on.
On a positive note, the voltage reading (although crude as I know) does not change weather the circuit breaker is turned on or not, so I seariously doubt that the problem is in the RV as in my thinking, if I had a short to ground, the voltage leading from my bare metal to the dirt should rise at least something.
I could probably get a better ground if I soaked the dirt near where I'm testing but didn't want to give myself any more of a chance at getting shocked more than through my tennis shoes.
So far when I was reading the prongs on my 50a power cord, I got a .5ohm reading from the ground/round prong to the bare metal on the RV (a bolt on a compartment door hinge) that I was testing from, so according to a few posters it should be good if less than 1ohm. When connecting from the groud/round prong and trying to read through to the other prongs on the plug I was reading infinite. I do have a transfer switch/surge protector built into the RV and it may have been shut off as it only seems to click once the breaker is turned on.
On a positive note, the voltage reading (although crude as I know) does not change weather the circuit breaker is turned on or not, so I seariously doubt that the problem is in the RV as in my thinking, if I had a short to ground, the voltage leading from my bare metal to the dirt should rise at least something.
I could probably get a better ground if I soaked the dirt near where I'm testing but didn't want to give myself any more of a chance at getting shocked more than through my tennis shoes.
