shock when touching Rv

I would recommend having your uncle fix the outlet before you return.
Check the polarity also.

When we were camping at my Uncles house a few years ago my dogs started refusing to get into the trailer. We had to lift them in and could not figure out why!! Finally my wife was out cleaning the window in wet socks and got a whack!! Figured out the ground had come loose. We just drove a rod into the ground and ran a wire from the bumper to the grounding rod and all was better.

To this day my Boxer WILL NOT go up the steps

Chris

Use an adapter and plug into a GFCI outlet. Post the results.

busyguy wrote:
I am also plugged into a 50 amp surge protector and it shows all is well with the wiring.

Protector can only report on a safety ground. It can say nothing about an earth ground. An open earth ground can explain a fault that is also not detected by a protector.

By shocked, do you mean a tingle or a painful jolt? Latter means another and serious human safety defect exists. Tingle means 60 volts or less between camper and earth.

I am presently configuring a polyethylene capacitor / resistor board to power LED indicators for Quicksilver. Loss of earth ground will result in the devices going dark. Power usage is infinitesimal. The LED's will be positioned in the plate covering the kitchen receptacle. It wouldn't be difficult to inverse the circuit to provide an externally mounted red blinking LED for loss of earth ground.

busyguy wrote:
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I am also plugged into a 50 amp surge protector and it shows all is well with the wiring.
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Busyguy

So that must mean the open ground is between the surge protector and the RV chassis. The surge protector is only going to show you the status between the surge protector and the source of power. IMO

A voltage detection device has been infallible for me for years. Is the skin has 30VAC it will detect it. I have seen neutral/hot carry over that leaves the chassis with AC voltage with a ground fault.

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Thanks guys for all the input. My coach is 50 amp and has been plugged in to the same circuit breaker box for the last 8 months and this is the first time I ever felt a tingle when touching it. I am also plugged into a 50 amp surge protector and it shows all is well with the wiring.
Will do some more testing tomorrow.
Thanks again. Appreciate the fast response and the concern for the safety.
Busyguy

The only ground your RV FRAME gets is through the SHORE POWER connection...

Assuming you are plugging into a regular 20A or 15A 120VAC receptacle in your garage etc... you have to plug into a fully functional 120VAC receptacle that is using all three wires for the 20AMP-15AMP connection.

Your adapter cable RV30A-15A may be missing the ground wire... I always carry one of these RV30A-15A LONG Dogbone type adapter to use. Those small round adapters get too hot for me to use and may burn the contacts... I also never use any extension cord less then 12GAUGE (12-3) and actually use a 10GAUGE (10-3) cord. The 14-16 Guage cords are just too small of wires to use...


The extension cord you are using may not be using the ground wire - some idiots cut those OFF for some reason...

I always use one of these 120VAC circuit testers from LOWES and it tells me right away if the 20A or 15A receptacle I am plugging into is OK and if I plug this into the end of the extension cord I can tell if it has all of those three cables wired correctly...


What may be just a small tingle to you could possibly do more harm to someone else or even your beloved dog or cat...... Not to be taken lightly...

I would unplug my trailer from shore power until I got this problem resolved.

Roy Ken