[VAC] Re: Water & electric

[Jim Clark <jec1938@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Questions    I have been bumbling along thinking I knew what was happening and now 
I wonder....

I assume you are looking for a green light and no red light..... potential between 
hot and ground and less than 60 volts or so between neutral and ground...

If the connections get reversed at the pole, What should be neutral is hot and 
what should be hot is neutral and probably grounded, if not at the pole , then 
probably by the power company at the transformer... the trailer sees a ground wire 
and what should be the neutral with power on it and what should be hot, 
grounded... so red light but not green light....

If the ground wire is bad, then no current flows and the neon will not light... no 
green and no red.....but the 110 vac outlets are reversed....And it shows bad 
ground...

I haven't torn into the AC panel, but should I have a separate green wire circuit 
back to each 3 prong outlet??  I know I have some 3 prong outlets and didn't look 
to see if there was a block in the AC box with all the green wires connected...I 
need to do some more looking....I think there are 3 AC circuits.  I have a small 
light on the rear of the trailer and I have not tried to light it by reversing the 
AC polarity, just assumed thats what it was for... I do remember seeing comments 
on removing the connection between the neutral and ground on the generator and 
remember wondering why that would be different from the neutral to ground 
connection on the park outlet???  Or are park outlets not normally connected 
between neutral and ground??  If one side of the 110 is not grounded, the whole 
thing could float off and assume some nasty potentials...to ground....

Should I dig into my generator and make sure the neutral is not grounded???

Should the trailer skinn be grounded??  Now days it's a little tougher to make the 
case of a defective tool hot by reversing the plug in the outlet, but I am sure 
there are some devices out there that can get that way... If that happens and the 
skin is grounded, we stand a good chance of getting in between hot and 
ground....Not good.....If the skin is not grounded, there is some chance that it 
could be make hot by frayed wire in the body, or some other connection between hot 
and the trailer.  With nowhere for the current to go, it waits for someone to step 
off the metal step and get one foot on the ground and one on the trailer, or in my 
case one on the ground and a hand on the door, trying to keep the wind from 
slamming it against the trailer....So, should the trailer be connected to the 
ground wire to the park outlet???  If I use my little portable tester in the 
trailer, the ground prong needs to provide ground, or I don't get the right 
pattern of lights...(right??) I can see this from outside the door when hooking 
up...but so far I have had a hand on the door when looking....

Somewhere in here I am asking :
Should the ground circuit be kept as a separate circuit from ground prong in the 
outlet to the ground prong on the park outlet??
Should I dig into the generator to make sure the neutral is not grounded??
Should the skin be grounded??
Should I be using a tester and adapters to match the pole outlet and If I see the 
pole is reversed, then what would be a prudent next step... ask for another slot??
I have not been checking the park voltage... should I be???   Low voltage messes 
up motors and high messes up some of my other stuff....


I didn't think I was confused, but I could probably get that way from 
here....sorry about the wandering....

Jim