It’s a serious code violation because if the neural line were to open up it would create a hot-skin voltage on anything connected to it with a grounded plug.
So it’s probably not dangerous right now, but it could turn bad in a heartbeat.
I found an outlet in an old house that was wired line to line, neutral to ground, and ground to ground. It was working fine and tested (by plugin tester) OK. Was it dangerous?
There's that photo of the "techie" coiled ground wire again. The ground wire should take as direct as possible route using the shortest wire necessary.
Yeah, I was lazy and grabbed the first pic of a ground rod in my library. Of course, ground wires even have a minimum bend radius so as not to promote lightning side flashes.
It’s a serious code violation because if the neural line were to open up it would create a hot-skin voltage on anything connected to it with a grounded plug.
So it’s probably not dangerous right now, but it could turn bad in a heartbeat.
Mike, It would be very easy on the Common bus (white wire) to insert a long screw that makes contact with the breaker box in the camper.
This will connect the Green drain line to the common line. Giving a HOT SKIN.
But if the RV chassis is properly grounded to the service panel bonding point, the circuit breaker would trip in a fraction of a second.
I found an outlet in an old house that was wired line to line, neutral to ground, and ground to ground. It was working fine and tested (by plugin tester) OK. Was it dangerous?
Mike,
There's that photo of the "techie" coiled ground wire again. The ground wire should take as direct as possible route using the shortest wire necessary.
Yeah, I was lazy and grabbed the first pic of a ground rod in my library. Of course, ground wires even have a minimum bend radius so as not to promote lightning side flashes.