trailer grounding

The service should be properly grounded. If you are in a park, and you ground your trailer, it will become the path of least resistance in case of a lightening strike nearby. I wouldn't do it.

Certainly not my area of expertise but I would think it would be alright to do… most are grounded already (although poorly) through the stabilizers and tongue jack…

But please don’t take my opinion to seriously… someone with more knowledge about this will certainly jump on with better and more accurate advise than I could give…

It should already be grounded through the plug and won't make any difference if you add a ground rod. It would not make a lightening strike anymore likely or damaging either.

Do you have Chinese tires?

J/K You shouldn't need to ground it, but it won't hurt anything. It is a bit of a security blanket to add a ground.

NO!

Nvr2loud wrote:
Do you have Chinese tires?

If you have Chinese tires you will be grounded sooner or later. LOL

Can you? Yes. Would it improve anything? No.

Doug33 wrote:


If you have Chinese tires you will be grounded sooner or later. LOL

:B:B:B

Homes and buildings always have multiple ground points by code. RVs normally do not but it wouldn't hurt if it is permanently parked. There is safety in redundancy.

Yes, you can. It will provide additional safety should there, for some reason, be an "open" from your RV to the electrical ground. Should, for some reason, the frame of the RV come in contact with the hot side of your AC and there is not a ground, you could have 120 volt potential between the trailer and ground. I saw this happen at a camp ground many years ago. For some reason the trailer was not grounded electrically and the campers complained that they were getting shocked when exiting the trailer. Yes, I think if you can you should. It's better to be safe!