rksylves
Full Fledged Farker
I'm at Cocoa Village competing saturday afternoon and after awards are over I'm talking to a couple of guys and it's starting to rain (again). So we break up and I head to the trailer to wait it out. The door was already open so I grabbed the door frame as I went to step up. Zap! What the Fark??
At first I thought it was because I was standing in water that I was a better ground than the real long extension cord. So I hop up into the trailer in one jump and try the door frame again. No shock. Hmm.. That's weird. I just go ahead and disconnect from shore power and head home.
Fast forward to Sunday morning. I go to plug the trailer in to an outlet in the garage that I've used numerous times before and the instant the plug touches, the house GFI breaker pops. Odd. I reset the breaker and everything seems fine.
I go into the trailer (no shock) and about 30 seconds after I go in, I hear a dull pop noise from behind the wall near the ceiling and all the power goes out. GFI breaker again. Oh crap..
So I go into the trailer AC electrical panel and disconnect the feed that goes to the roof air conditioner (that's the only thing that has power that high in the wall). Go reset the house GFI breaker and everything is fine. Had the power on for an hour or so. Unplug the power, reconnect the roof AC, and viola, the problem is back within 30 seconds.
So I disconnect it all again and this time I take the cover off the air conditioner and splice an old extension cord directly to the A/C unit and plug into the exact same house outlet. Works like a champ. Ran it for an hour or so with no troubles.
So the problem is between the breaker panel and the A/C unit, somewhere in the wall. This afternoon after work I'm going to start getting into the wall to see what I can see. Stay tuned.
Russ
At first I thought it was because I was standing in water that I was a better ground than the real long extension cord. So I hop up into the trailer in one jump and try the door frame again. No shock. Hmm.. That's weird. I just go ahead and disconnect from shore power and head home.
Fast forward to Sunday morning. I go to plug the trailer in to an outlet in the garage that I've used numerous times before and the instant the plug touches, the house GFI breaker pops. Odd. I reset the breaker and everything seems fine.
I go into the trailer (no shock) and about 30 seconds after I go in, I hear a dull pop noise from behind the wall near the ceiling and all the power goes out. GFI breaker again. Oh crap..
So I go into the trailer AC electrical panel and disconnect the feed that goes to the roof air conditioner (that's the only thing that has power that high in the wall). Go reset the house GFI breaker and everything is fine. Had the power on for an hour or so. Unplug the power, reconnect the roof AC, and viola, the problem is back within 30 seconds.
So I disconnect it all again and this time I take the cover off the air conditioner and splice an old extension cord directly to the A/C unit and plug into the exact same house outlet. Works like a champ. Ran it for an hour or so with no troubles.
So the problem is between the breaker panel and the A/C unit, somewhere in the wall. This afternoon after work I'm going to start getting into the wall to see what I can see. Stay tuned.
Russ