Got shocked while washing trailer
My neighbor has a FR Heritage Glenn Lite bumper pull that is just past a year old; (no more warranty). He just told me that he was shocked while kneeling & hand-washing top of RV. He was washing th...
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Bobbo wrote:BFL13 wrote:
One way to get a GFCI fault is to get the outside receptacle wet. He was washing his rig when this happened. So..... ?
The problem is not a GFCI fault, it is a hot skin. Someone threw in a comment about a GFCI fault just to muddy the water.
I don't know the electrical details so my terminology is not to be trusted.
ISTR past threads where they got a tingle from the trailer skin or frame while doing something and it turned out the problem was GFCI related.
Once they plugged the shore cord into a GFCI receptacle it popped, revealing the problem, and after fixing what was causing that, the tingle problem wet away too. Can't say which is chicken and which is egg for that.
Usually the shore power cord adapter being out in a puddle or some such reason to do with rain IIRC.
