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Yeah, I've been busy. I'm now writing several full-length articles every week in RVtravel.com and my RVelectricity.com newsletter is taking off rapidly. I will be presenting at least two No~Shock~Zone seminars at your rally in Goshen next June, 2019. I have a lot more NSZ demonstrations set up...

With the blessing of Forum Admin, Jim Beletti, I am reposting my recent article on RV hot-skin testing here. I'll also be presenting this demonstration in a seminar at your national rally in June, 2019. I'm Mike Sokol, an expert on RV electrical hookups and safety, and writer of the...

I'm Mike Sokol from www.NoShockZone.org. Thanks for linking to my articles about RV electricity. Here's a recent video I just made about testing pedestal outlets for proper voltage, polarity and grounding. Please let me know if you have any questions about RV electric power...

Yes, that's the most important thing to do. First check it on a "turned on" outlet on the pedestal, and it should beep and/or light. Then check your RV for a hot-skin voltage. The fear is that the batteries or electronics could die and the tester wouldn't beep on a real hot skin. BTW: That's...

Please post the following to any forums you belong to. Mike Sokol from The No~Shock~Zone will appear live on the RVtravel webinar on Saturday, June 21 at noon EST. He'll be discussing RV electrical safety as well as announcing his upcoming eBook on Amazon titled "No~Shock~Zone - RV...

FYI: I'm now working on a article about something I call a reflected hot-skin condition. This occurs when a section of daisy-chained pedestals lose the main ground connection back to the service panel's G-N-E bonding point. If an RV with a hot-to-chassis short is plugged into this section of the...

I've received dozens of emails over the last year detailing where broken grounds and neutrals in the shore power cord or even the RV's breaker panel was to blame for the hot-skin condition. And while you can measure RV skin voltage to earth using a standard volt-meter, that requires a ground rod...

Are you referring to the EC&M Article, or the one in RV Education 101?

Thanks for posting my Hot-Skin article here. And yes, there's at least one mis-wiring condition than ALL EMS/Surge-Guard/Protectors will neither detect nor disconnect your RV from. I've named it an RPBG condition which causes a high-current hot-skin voltage, which is perhaps the most dangerous...

Re: Bighorn problems. If you have a hot-skin situation, the first place to check is always any adapters or extension cords plugged onto the shore power cord. While there are many quality "dog-bone" adapters available, some of the single-piece power adapters are very poorly made and can result...

Here's the basics: http://www.noshockzone.org/the-noshockzone-part-xi-%E2%80%94-extension-cord-testing/ However, any standard VOM (or DMM) is going to push so little current through the wires, that it's difficult to read low ohms, plus it can be fooled by loose and corroded connections. That's...

Jeremy, you did exactly the right thing.... didn't accept getting shocked, and didn't leave a broken pedestal for the next person to find. I believe it's socially irresponsible for anyone to simply plug into another outlet that works, leaving behind a potentially deadly situation that could kill...

Yes it should have. There would be a open ground indication and the relays should have remained open and not send power to your RV. I've done a bench test of this using a Progressive Industries Surge/Voltage protector, and it works exactly as advertised. HOWEVER if you have a portable...

Here's a video of me testing a 40-ft RV for a hot-skin condition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8h64X33aKg While I artificially created this condition in the video, it only takes two things to occur for it to happen on your RV. First, you need to have an open safety ground connection. While...

Hey, I'm Mike Sokol, the writer of the NoShockZone articles about using a Non Contact Voltage Tester (NCVT) to check your trailer for a hot-skin condition. What everyone else has said here is 100% true. And yes, you really need to document the failed pedestal outlet and bring it to the attention...