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joebedford
Nomad II
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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kampinguru
Explorer
Jun 25, 2013
Harvard wrote:
For sure you have an open ground conductor. In other words, there is no continuity in the ground wire from the RV chassis to the power distribution Earth Grounding Rod. Be very suspicious of the "adaptors".


I would look here as well. I have the same problem when I plug my trailer into the house 110 socket using the dogbone converter. Not a problem any other time, only when using the dogbone. I also get it when I am using my generator to power the trailer due to no ground on the genny.

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