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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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Wayne_Dohnal
Explorer
Jun 25, 2013

My understanding of the NEC is that neutral and ground NEVER get bonded at subpanels, that's why you don't do it in an RV, it's basically a sub panel.
That's true now, wasn't in the not-too-distant past for detached buildings. According to this forum thread 3-wire feeds to existing detached buildings the change occurred at the 2005 NEC to 2008 NEC transition. Haven't researched it myself.

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