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...
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westend wrote:
Could it be that the wet conditions offered a path to ground along with the typical RV grounding? You would also need the power to have some type of open so that the ground would be part of the current path.
With the trailer disconnected from shore connection and having no inverter, there is no way to have AC from the RV to earth. That is a false reading from your tester.
You know, that really makes sense, and it was just what I was thinking. Must be a bad meter.
Well, I decided to take a simple test light, one side to power (my trailer skirting) one side to ground (mud under the rocks under the trailer) and see what happens.
Here's what happens: a small, but definite, light shows up in the tester! There IS electricity there. Meter reading is looking better all the time. Meter says electricity; light confirms electricity.
If only I knew the source of the electricity. I'm going to work on it some more tomorrow.
