Hurricaner wrote: Hot skin is almost always caused by a bad AC ground.
Sam
and the AC leakage is capacitative coupling through the converter transformer and is too little, most of the time, to trip a GFI when there is one in circuit. As I said, check the "hockey puck", if there is one!!
btilfan wrote: "The simplest way to test your coach is with a multimeter. Set the meter to read AC voltage and connect one lead to the coach and the other to a good ground. If you read any AC voltage, you have a poor ground to the coach"
Where on the coach?
Unplug it and measure OHMS from the ground lead to coach. Don't measure AC. The voltage you measure is not going to be consistent enough to prove out the source of the failure. You have to isolate the problem by measuring where the loss of continuity is through the ground connection. If you have continuity, then measure your extension cord.
Home Depot sells a Sperry 3-Wire Circuit Analyzer for $3.98. Just plug it into any 3-wire receptacle and it will show good circuit, broken grounds or reverse polarity.
Ray & Mollie Thomson
Pepper - long haired chihuahua
1986 Holiday Rambler Imperial - Chevy 454 V-8; TH400
2002 Lincoln Continental - 4.6L V-8
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
When I first plug in to shore power, I always swipe my hand across the door handle before grasping it. We had a local teenage girl electrocuted when she touched the door handle of her Grampas trailer which was plugged into a household outlet.
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