rerod wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
What is this freaking fetish with refrigerators and GCFI's?
Bathroom, kitchen and outdoor receptacles yes. If they are too cheap to buy a 2nd and 3rd GCFI outlet then bring a tool kit. Vacation's over. Uh, aren't most RV refrigerator parts you touch plastic? Or vinyl covered?
Good question.. I wondered if I could exclude the gfic from the circuit. But I imagine someone must have had a accident due to the 110 plug getting wet.
But my refrigerator is cooling on LP , and I'm relieved.
Thanks everyone
The parts of the fridge you touch are plastic, mostly, but the metal chassis of the fridge is connected (electrically) to the RV frame, so leaked current could travel wherever. Even if the fridge were not on the RV's GFCI circuit, it would pop any GFCI that the RV as a whole were plugged into, such as any (up to code) 15/20A outlet.
The proper response to a ground fault is of course to correct the fault. In this case, it's presumably that the electric heating element needs replacement.
