Harvard
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Definetly and open ground conductor. Voltage is result of capacitative coupling through your converter, which is normal. The amount of leakage is too little to trip a GFI if the shore power comes from a GFI. Typically caused by cheap 15A/30A hockey puck adaptors where the female ground hole is too large in diameter to properly fit the male conductor. In addition to having it happen to me, this is the third time I have seen this reported on forums in the last year.
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cvrvr
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Thats why they put the ground pin on the ext cord. It is a safety device.
It is great that you are still around to write about it.
Get a new ext cord.
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YC 1
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Ev wrote:to Tinstar:
yes the ground was damp from rain the night before and i was lying down also the extension cord I used to go to the receptacle the third prong is broken could this be the problem
You are lucky. If you could have managed to get that plug in upside down because the ground lug is off you could have been killed. Chop that extension cord into short unusable pieces and get a nice heavy duty one.
The potential is that you could have made the whole outside of the metal surfaces 110 volts, and you or someone grabbing a handle to get inside could have been killed. This is why GFCI outlets are so important. Glad you are ok.
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Hey,
Thanks to all that have replied I bought a new extension cord and a gfci tester from lowes and sure enough the cord had a opened ground new cord fixed the problem and i'm back in business. thanks again by the way I and my family are happy that i'm still here to wright about it ( I think they are happy anyway He He) just glad it was not worse thanks again for all the advice.
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Farmerkev
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YC 1 wrote: Chop that extension cord into short unusable pieces and get a nice heavy duty one.
That's a bit silly, just put a new end on it.
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JerryPeck
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Farmerkev wrote:YC 1 wrote: Chop that extension cord into short unusable pieces and get a nice heavy duty one.
That's a bit silly, just put a new end on it.
That advice to chop it up into short pieces was not silly.
In fact, it was the best and most professional advice possible.
Sure, you can go to a store and by a plug, cut the old one off, and put a new one on, but the cord and plug set is now 'damaged goods' and is no longer 'listed and labeled' (because the plug was cut off).
I imagine you would go down to the store and buy one of those old, screws-in-the-front types of plugs too, right? Heck, they cost less than a good quality dead front type, so why not, right?
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Farmerkev
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JerryPeck wrote:Farmerkev wrote:YC 1 wrote: Chop that extension cord into short unusable pieces and get a nice heavy duty one.
That's a bit silly, just put a new end on it.
That advice to chop it up into short pieces was not silly.
In fact, it was the best and most professional advice possible.
Sure, you can go to a store and by a plug, cut the old one off, and put a new one on, but the cord and plug set is now 'damaged goods' and is no longer 'listed and labeled' (because the plug was cut off).
I imagine you would go down to the store and buy one of those old, screws-in-the-front types of plugs too, right? Heck, they cost less than a good quality dead front type, so why not, right?
Best and most professional advice possible?
I think not.
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Bea PA
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Glad you are still around, I remember the sad story of the 2 girls killed last year, one tried to save the other when she stepped onto a trailer with an open ground. We were at a small campground in 06, a woman came over and said she had felt a shock and her dog refused to get into the trailer. My husband checked and the "handyman" had wired the pedestal wrong.
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keith and sharon
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We never repair our cords at work we always cut them up and throw them away. too much of a possibility of getting the new ends wired wrong and then you have a liablity problem if some one else gets hurt. It can get a lot more expensive than just buying a new cord.
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YC 1
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keith and sharon wrote:We never repair our cords at work we always cut them up and throw them away. too much of a possibility of getting the new ends wired wrong and then you have a liablity problem if some one else gets hurt. It can get a lot more expensive than just buying a new cord.
I own an electronics company and relying on a damaged extension cord is $ foolish for safety. When I find a bad cord I do indeed cut the ends off immediately if I can't get it to the trash bin right away.
Since the person reporting the issue did not know for sure the cause of the problem, but knew the ground lead was cut, I would be uneasy he might make a deadly mistake replacing the end himself. Extension cords are cheap, Osha reports are not.
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