GFI trips at home when trailer plugged in
Today I plugged my trailer in at home in preparation for a trip, to charge the batteries. The GFI in the garage was tripped. I turned off all the breakers for 120V in the trailer and it still tri...
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donn0128 wrote:ScottG wrote:donn0128 wrote:
You cannot plug a trailer into another GFCI. They do not play nice with the GFCI that is already in your trailer.
I'm sorry but this isn't accurate. You can daisy chain a dozen GFCI's and they wont trip. So yes, you can plug a trailer into a GFCI - or should be able to if all is right.
The problem is you have a ground fault someplace - ground is touching hot. The most common causes are the heater element in your fridge, which can work fine but has contacted chassis ground (repl it). Other causes are the water heater or a wet external outlet.
You can isolate it by unplugging each item one at a time and trying the GFCI again.
You want to fix this because it can be a very dangerous condition.
That depends on whether they are in series or parallel. The OP has one feeding the RV and another in the RV. That will not allow them to play nice together.
Repeating your statement does not make it true. You can have GFCI circuits and breakers in your RV and still plug it into a GFCI outlet. I do it all the time.
