small electrical charge on truck camper frame

it is easy for me to disconnect the inverter when the inverter is not involved all the polarity issues are correct inside the RV it when I hook up to the inverter both sides of the outlets are hot I'm pulling the inverter out and I'm goin to you take it away from the camper completely if its got hot coming out of both sides then it must be screwed up I guess my question is couldthis caused my problem which I think it could f the neutral is all tied to the ground and some point

you may want to take that 600 watt inverter over to the trash can and make a deposit. There are plenty of reasons not to use cheapo inverters for prolonged periods. Then go check and recheck all your lines and connections in the camper and even throughout the truck.

Use a polarity tester on the outlet your RV is plugged into.
Then plug into a GFI to see if it trips and if the issue goes away.

I was voting for the static problem as we have cloth seats in our truck and when humidity is just right we get a spark.I'm tempted to drag a ground wire along the road under the truck.
Wow you just thru a wrench into the works.
you have a deadly situation going on. you need to check all of your 120 connections and check your inverter connections making sure it is well grounded to the skin and the frame.amd not use it until you find the problem . If you can't find a wiring problem contact the manufacturer for help.
good luck.

Check your main ground wire. If you cant find it take it to a shop. I had the same current thing and got lucky and found the issue. One way or another get it fixed pronto.

silversand wrote:
....there exists something called: RV hot skin. This condition (when camper is plugged into AC, among other scenarios) causes the camper "skin" and any camper metal (like door frames, metal stairs and anything metal connected to camper ground) to go electrically live.

This isn't something to ignore. Under the right conditions, it could kill ANY warm-blooded animal (human, dog, cat, anything) in seconds.

It is recommended that virtually every camper should be tested every time it is taken out, for this condition.

This is too complicated to go into in this Post. Have a read here-->

Okay I read the article and I thought well I have both a volt meter and the pen thing to check for electricity. There is one possibility that there was ac at the time I felt the charge and that is if my inverter was on charging a phone or tablet as we drove down the road. So I turned it on and found both the neutral side and the hot side to be hot. I then got out the voltage meter and each side is showing 65 to 75 volts. Now how in the hell does that happen????? The inverter is a cheap 600 watt inverter that has worked on our just completed 11 day trip. It has charged phone and tablet batteries as well as run the satellite and TV with no problems. Now I went and tested my 2000 watt xantrex inverter in all the same fashions on my 5th wheel. Guess what one side is neutral and the other is hot just as its suppose to be. It also puts out 120 volts.

I have this inverter screwed to the side of my old generator compartment that is now used for storage. I connected the wires that ran from the battery to the generator for the starter to the inverter. They are good heavy wires. I then connected the inverter plug to the 12 gauge wires than run to the 30 amp receptacle that you plug into when using the now removed generator on my truck camper so all the outlets are hot in the camper. By golly they are all hot on both sides. So now the next question is do you think this could cause the skin of the camper to become charged. Also what would cause both sides to be hot?

It is possible the first time this happened inverter was on also. Not sure though. When plugged into shore power all the outlets work correctly.

Very very interesting. I have felt this a couple times. In the year I have owned this camper. I was definitely not connected to ac when I felt it this last time on the road. I don't know if I was the first time. I could feel the electrical impulse much like static electricity feels. But I didn't get shocked. I could touch any part of the skin of my truck and could feel it. I was driving through 100 degree heat in southern Utah. It was unmistakable on the skin of the truck and camper. I drove a little further down the road and it was gone. I am going to see if I can get it to appear when off the truck. Kind of baffled right now. The first time this happened it was in my shop and I am almost certain it was not static electricity.

DC voltage flows through skin in a complex way (some may "sense" the flow, others may not: there is an academic discipline specializing specifically in this genre of research). DC can kill you under the right conditions (it is far more dangerous than AC; even in very low voltage situations). I believe DC electrical design safety is based on a 40VDC threshold; think this should be revised down considerably.

You were not plugged in to AC so you do not have "hot skin". And unless you are just super sensitive to electricity, you can not feel 12 volts. Place your fingers across the battery terminals and see.
I think you are occasionally generating static electricity somehow and that is what you feel.