Help: electrical shock!

It could also be the receptacle you are plugging into having a broken GROUND WIRE. This is the only way the trailer frame gets it's EARTH GROUND through the GREEN wire coming from the shore power connection.

Pick up one of the very expensive circuit tested described above. Great to have around anyway. Just plug this into the receptacle using the adapters and what lights up.

This could be a very dangerous situation. Different folks reacts differently to small electrical shock. My fellow worker back in my working days would actually touch a 120V or 240V hot wire with his finger and tell you what the voltage was - TRUE STORY... A very TUFF OLD SC man...

Roy Ken

Or I found a wall outlet box mounting screw once that nicked the hot wire going to another box. Look for the ground problem first it's more common.

Yup, bad ground, either the power pedestal has an open ground, or your power cord has a broken wire. The former is much more likely.

You are not grounded. I had this problem at the last house I lived in. The electric cord had 3 prongs, but when plugged in, I always got those slight "tingles" when touching the door of the trailer ... especially when barefoot.

I finally did some re-wiring in the house-garage and made sure that plug was grounded. (it was not). After that, never had the problem again.


If you don't have one, pick up one of these and check your shore power plug. You can get them at any Lowe's or Home Depot, or even on-line. They run pretty cheap. Home Depot link, click here.

centracom wrote:
I have a 2011 Jayco JayFeather 242 TT. Recently I noticed when I am plugged into shore power that I am getting a slight electrical shock.

We just went through this here in this discussion.

enblethen wrote:
Broken ground lug on your shore power cord or adapters.

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Need to get that fixed/replaced

Broken ground lug on your shore power cord or adapters.