Grounding fixed in place 5th wheel
Hey there everyone! New to the forums and I need a bit of electrical help. I've got 2 RVs, well a 5th wheel and an RV, one I live in and its fixed in place pretty much, it's a 35 foot old as dirt 5th ...
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First off super appreciate the help here and wanna thank you all. Anyone ever heading to the Sequoia national park and needs a place to park for a night I'm extremely close to the park off the freeway and have dumping facility, power. S water for free. Just email me for the address and a meet up time. I wish I could offer more and it's very appreciated and sorry for ttaking so long to reply. And thanks Roy for the diagram! We want to make our other RV, which is our bugout vehicle in case shtf to get to our militia meet point, with mobile radios and antennas bit somehow hide a lot of it. We're even being heavily funded by them for it so that info helped a lot royb. Really appreciate that bro... And let's forget I said anything about a militia cough cough cough... Great opsec from the freaking radio guy there lol.
Anyways I've got a new problem: I got the ah** shocked out of me putting up some spit flood lights for security while touching the frame. I unplugged the lights As they were tied temp into a plug which went to an extension cord plugged into the trailer power on an outside plug. I unplugged it and think it stopped the problem. I don't see whats going on there, the lights are mounted to boxes on 2x4s then just placed on top of the trailer or in one case mounted to the side with screws to hold it upright but it's sitting on the lift up back window covering. I need to go check and make sure it's not shocking me still....that's gonna be fun lol. I've ubugfed all my radios but my laptop's and computers as well as my security cams n DVR are still going. To my knowledge they ran 2 120v 30amp lines in the air from the warehouse to a pole on the corner we installed, then dropped it down straight to the 2 receptacle plufs, 2 sets of 2 plugs each, each one tied into a 120v line. We if the 5th wheel big black cord to one, then fill the other 3 with a Window air-conditioning unit, a smaller, new one on the opposite plug from the house, then on the 2ns plug for the one with the 5th wheel plugged in I run a thick, yellow, heavy duty extension cord inside, it has a receptacle and box with 2 plugs on it, inside. On that plug I run a wifi box and a power strip with breaker with I think 3 or 4 of the 12vdc convertors for some of the cameras n I think it may have an LED houselight on there too. The other plug has the AC and a new outside full size fridge on it I think. It's actually doesn't draw as much power as it sounds. The house has a laptop inside, the rest of the cams convertors and a DVR inside, then outside it has 4 lights, 2 big ones of the type like you would use to light up a large area from American lights but they say they don't take up as much power, then it has 2 flood lights plugged into it. Oh wait correction, the fridge goes to a power strip which we then use to power another motion sensing spot light on the power pole. The strip is housed in a homemade water tight box. It's on the sane 120v line as AC.
This is the Central valley California guys. We're dry as a bone around here and have 120F Summers with daily temps over 100f basically every summer day. The ground is dry and there is no spots that get moisture lol. I'm thinking not putting the one pole I have into the ground a foot or 3 from the pole for now, grounding the frame and box to it like you said, then I'll add another ground rod when I can afford it. Is this acceptable you think? And cpukd the shocking me be from a switched hot/nue? Or could I have put a screw into a line? I've put more holes in the side of this thing... Anyways thanks for the help guys and see the post I'm gonna make, I wanba borrow those brains! We're upgrading security!
Anyways I've got a new problem: I got the ah** shocked out of me putting up some spit flood lights for security while touching the frame. I unplugged the lights As they were tied temp into a plug which went to an extension cord plugged into the trailer power on an outside plug. I unplugged it and think it stopped the problem. I don't see whats going on there, the lights are mounted to boxes on 2x4s then just placed on top of the trailer or in one case mounted to the side with screws to hold it upright but it's sitting on the lift up back window covering. I need to go check and make sure it's not shocking me still....that's gonna be fun lol. I've ubugfed all my radios but my laptop's and computers as well as my security cams n DVR are still going. To my knowledge they ran 2 120v 30amp lines in the air from the warehouse to a pole on the corner we installed, then dropped it down straight to the 2 receptacle plufs, 2 sets of 2 plugs each, each one tied into a 120v line. We if the 5th wheel big black cord to one, then fill the other 3 with a Window air-conditioning unit, a smaller, new one on the opposite plug from the house, then on the 2ns plug for the one with the 5th wheel plugged in I run a thick, yellow, heavy duty extension cord inside, it has a receptacle and box with 2 plugs on it, inside. On that plug I run a wifi box and a power strip with breaker with I think 3 or 4 of the 12vdc convertors for some of the cameras n I think it may have an LED houselight on there too. The other plug has the AC and a new outside full size fridge on it I think. It's actually doesn't draw as much power as it sounds. The house has a laptop inside, the rest of the cams convertors and a DVR inside, then outside it has 4 lights, 2 big ones of the type like you would use to light up a large area from American lights but they say they don't take up as much power, then it has 2 flood lights plugged into it. Oh wait correction, the fridge goes to a power strip which we then use to power another motion sensing spot light on the power pole. The strip is housed in a homemade water tight box. It's on the sane 120v line as AC.
This is the Central valley California guys. We're dry as a bone around here and have 120F Summers with daily temps over 100f basically every summer day. The ground is dry and there is no spots that get moisture lol. I'm thinking not putting the one pole I have into the ground a foot or 3 from the pole for now, grounding the frame and box to it like you said, then I'll add another ground rod when I can afford it. Is this acceptable you think? And cpukd the shocking me be from a switched hot/nue? Or could I have put a screw into a line? I've put more holes in the side of this thing... Anyways thanks for the help guys and see the post I'm gonna make, I wanba borrow those brains! We're upgrading security!
