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joebedford
Nomad III
Jun 16, 2013

Shocking! AC power tingle between frame and (real) ground

I was doing something at the back of my RV today and I put one knee down into fairly damp earth (heavy rains here the other day). I steadied myself by leaning my right forearm on the bare aluminum hin...
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Harvard
Explorer
Jun 21, 2013
My Class C RV (sitting entirely on rubber tires, no jacks) is at the other end of a 150 foot 3 wire 14 AWG extension cord and our earth is saturated because of many days of heavy rain. I am reading about 0.4 VAC from chassis to earth.

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