How to Discover Source of Hot Skin
My trailer is parked under a metal carport on a dirt pad covered with rock. It has been raining and the ground under the rock is damp or wet, depending on where you are under the carport. Last evenin...
Forum Discussion
Harvard
The trailer has no electrical wires overhead. Only elec wire within 50 ft of the trailer is in the garage where a 20 amp circuit powers the garage and the extension cord plugged into the garage. There are power wires running across the front of property about 200 ft away, the usual stuff that feeds houses on a street (I wouldn't THINK it would be 6000 V). No really high voltage overhead stuff nearby that I can find.
I don't understand how there can be current in the ground wire (or neutral or hot wire for that matter) when the trailer is not attached to shore power, with the main breaker shut off, and the battery switch turned off. Is the trailer generating it's own AC power? Why doesn't the circuit tester find a problem? Or are you indicating that there may be some voltage, but so small that it shouldn't be worried about?
PS - I like your planes!
The trailer has no electrical wires overhead. Only elec wire within 50 ft of the trailer is in the garage where a 20 amp circuit powers the garage and the extension cord plugged into the garage. There are power wires running across the front of property about 200 ft away, the usual stuff that feeds houses on a street (I wouldn't THINK it would be 6000 V). No really high voltage overhead stuff nearby that I can find.
I don't understand how there can be current in the ground wire (or neutral or hot wire for that matter) when the trailer is not attached to shore power, with the main breaker shut off, and the battery switch turned off. Is the trailer generating it's own AC power? Why doesn't the circuit tester find a problem? Or are you indicating that there may be some voltage, but so small that it shouldn't be worried about?
PS - I like your planes!
