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Rhigley
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Nov 23, 2015

Static electricity

I'm at the river and it is a little windy and every time I move around my motor home and touch metal I get a small shock. How can I stop this?
  • Look at your shore power connector. 30 amp shore power look at the round pin. wiggle it. moves too much easily the wire has broken off.
    Check in your 120 volt power distribution panel for loose connections. dis connect from shore power, then remove metal dead front to gain access.
  • Humidity is 12% . I looked at my shore power and ground is good as far as I can see . It goes into a cement block. I'll go into town and get a tester tomorrow. If it turns out to be my motor home were is the first place I should look . Thanks
  • Low humidity ?

    Run a vaporizer or Install a grounding wire from camper to ground..but rockhill may be on to something, if your shore power is grounded, so should be your MH
  • X2
    Open ground and 'you' are now the best ground it is finding!

    Pick up one of these at the hardware store and plug it into an outlet you'll know in an instant what the problem is.

    It's been my experience that open grounds usually start at the shore station outlet from overuse and the ground wire is pulled loose or off.

    Plug the tester into the shore station first and if there is an open ground light tell the CG owner.


    When parked at a CG I leave this plugged into an outlet inside my MH at all times. Let's me know at a glance if anything is wrong.
  • I would not be looking at it as a static discharge shock but, as a possible open ground somewhere in your wiring system that's causing the shock. I can't see the humidity so low in a MH as to cause static shocks, with the normal characteristics of excess moisture in RV's 99% of the time.

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