RV "Hot Skin" and GFCI?
Yesterday I discovered I had the troubling “hot skin” condition. After some troubleshooting and testing of different configurations, I determined I could only resolve the hot skin condition by physica...
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enblethen wrote:
There seems to be an open in the ground in the pedestal wiring. When you energize the GFCI receptacle, a ground path is made possibly through the neutral of the 120 volt 15/20 amp circuit.
Energizing the GFCI should not create a ground path via the neutral. The GFCI mechanism itself does not even need or use a direct ground. The only reason one is connected to a GFCI at all is to provide a safety ground for 3-wire devices plugged into the load side. The neutral should not be bonded to ground on the RV end per the NEC.
