clearance lights/fantastic fan grounding
hey everyone! I've finally got the entire outside built and sealed from weather on my 20 foot 1979 ford class C! I've got the new clearance lights/tail lights and 4x fantastic fan vents on there, ready to be wired. I'm going to wire those and all my 12v wiring needs(sockets, lights, etc). I can't put the actual sockets or figures yet because there are no walls, but I can run the wiring before the spray foam guy comes. the motorhome at the moment, is a tin box with wood sticks framing it on the inside. I have full access to wire where I need.
I know which wires go where for the most part, but what I don't know what to do is how to ground my 12v stuff. the fantastic fans, lights, sockets etc. when I was a kid, we had a Cortez and the generator was grounded to the outside panels stupidly, so if you touched ANY metal on the outside of the motorhome while the generator was running, you got a shock. this tells me not to ground to the thin outer panels, and that I might have to run grounding wire for everything. is that the case?
which of these things need grounding, and where can I ground them to?
clearance lights
tail lights/blinkers/running(one fixture)
fantastic fans
12v sockets
long story short, I'm moving into this in 3-4 weeks. it'll be pretty bare bones with wiring and insulation, basic appliances(Coleman stove+compost toielt+cooler), and my bed. in march when the ground isn't snow covered, I can finish the build but for a few months, this is what I have. so now I wire it and insulate it.
I know which wires go where for the most part, but what I don't know what to do is how to ground my 12v stuff. the fantastic fans, lights, sockets etc. when I was a kid, we had a Cortez and the generator was grounded to the outside panels stupidly, so if you touched ANY metal on the outside of the motorhome while the generator was running, you got a shock. this tells me not to ground to the thin outer panels, and that I might have to run grounding wire for everything. is that the case?
which of these things need grounding, and where can I ground them to?
clearance lights
tail lights/blinkers/running(one fixture)
fantastic fans
12v sockets
long story short, I'm moving into this in 3-4 weeks. it'll be pretty bare bones with wiring and insulation, basic appliances(Coleman stove+compost toielt+cooler), and my bed. in march when the ground isn't snow covered, I can finish the build but for a few months, this is what I have. so now I wire it and insulate it.
