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mikestock
Explorer
Dec 30, 2016

50 amp, 240 volt hookup without equipment ground

My son has purchased a lake house and we found a 50 amp RV plug. I checked it out and it has 120 volts from each leg to neutral and 240 volts between hot legs. The problem is that there is no ground w...
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ktmrfs
Explorer III
Dec 31, 2016
mikeh449 wrote:
gfci needs ground also


nope it does NOT in fact GFI work well with old houses w/o grounded recepticals. ALL a GFI does is detect a current imbalance between hot and neutral. It NEVER looks at ground current.

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