boondox
Chief Engineer, RedNeckTech Industries
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- Mar 1, 2020
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Hey All,
I just want a double check here. As a self edgimicated guy sometimes I miss things.
I have always understood that the ground and neutral should be bonded in only one place. I just sold my teardrop trailer to some friends and as soon as they plugged it into their outdoor GFI protected outlet it popped. I came over and took a look and found that the trailer's breaker box has all of the neutral and ground wires connected on the neutral bus and a clip from the neutral bus to the ground. Definitely done at the factory (the trailer was made by Hunter). I had never plugged it into a GFI outlet and had never discovered this.
Is there a reason for this? Is there some safety issue I am unaware of? If one was only powering the trailer with a generator that didn't have the ground and neutral bonded it would be good, but this trailer will only be plugged into shore power.
Assuming that I should separate the ground and neutral I will get a ground bus, switch all the grounds to that and remove the bonding clip. I also noticed that the skin of the trailer is not connected to ground, it seems like that would be a good idea too.
Thanks!
I just want a double check here. As a self edgimicated guy sometimes I miss things.
I have always understood that the ground and neutral should be bonded in only one place. I just sold my teardrop trailer to some friends and as soon as they plugged it into their outdoor GFI protected outlet it popped. I came over and took a look and found that the trailer's breaker box has all of the neutral and ground wires connected on the neutral bus and a clip from the neutral bus to the ground. Definitely done at the factory (the trailer was made by Hunter). I had never plugged it into a GFI outlet and had never discovered this.
Is there a reason for this? Is there some safety issue I am unaware of? If one was only powering the trailer with a generator that didn't have the ground and neutral bonded it would be good, but this trailer will only be plugged into shore power.
Assuming that I should separate the ground and neutral I will get a ground bus, switch all the grounds to that and remove the bonding clip. I also noticed that the skin of the trailer is not connected to ground, it seems like that would be a good idea too.
Thanks!