GFCI and an Open Ground
Given: A 120 VAC GFCI supplying power to a 30 AMP RV. The RV has one problem, the 3rd Prong Ground wire at the 30 AMP plug is not making connection. (The RV chassis is floating because there are no ot...
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BB_TX wrote:
I guess that is where I was losing it. The OP stated he did not have a ground at his power cord leading to a floating ground in the RV. And being an RV there is no other normal path to ground. But later posts stated a ground was not required to detect a neutral to ground fault in a GFCI. And I was lost from that point.
I think people were commenting on whether the GCFI device itself needed the ground wire routed to it to literally use in the circuit (it doesn't) versus whether a ground path is involved in the complete system (it is).
