The safety concern is that you have no protection ground so a ground fault inside the vehicle may result in the body of your vehicle becoming live.
I've never seen an RV pedestal without ground though? I though that was required for any outdoor outlets. If this is a permanent thing you might want to drive a ground rod next to the pedestal. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM, David Nelson via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the safety issues of charging an OEM EV on 120V without the > ground wire connected? I do have an EVSE which will do this if I put > 100kohm resistors between hot-ground and neutral-ground which is what > I have to do to charge with my portable-inverter generator. I'm not > concerned with generator charging but charging from an RV pedestal. > > Thanks, > > -- > David D. Nelson > http://evalbum.com/1328 > http://www.levforum.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- www.electric-lemon.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151006/351ee14f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
