HOT SKIN

[Jay Darst]

My Bird is setting in my driveway and plugged into a standard 20 amp
receptacle via the 50amp/30amp cordset with a 30amp to 15amp adapter.

I have used this method here at home for 2 1/2 years and have never
had HOT SKIN.

It has been plugged in for about 10 days now(this time). I have been
in and out of the Bird most every day. No shocks.

But this morning, with door key in hand, I touched the door key to
the deadbolt and got a shock.(DAM!)

I have read old posts that indicate "there must be something wrong".

Am looking for something a bit more definitive. Being the Bird has
never done this, and that it hasn't moved since having no HOT SKIN,
I doubt that it is a bare skinned wire.

In reading information provided by the Freedom Inverter, there is a
section that indicates that the unit internally bonds the AC output
white(neutral) and green(ground) when the unit is OFF or in the
INVERT mode (neither of these being the case today).

When incoming AC is applied, this bond is lifted. When AC power is
applied, the grounding system is supplied by the source(in this
case, my house wiring system), where neutral and earth ground are
bonded together.

This probably has nothing to with it, but just in case I am missing
something here...

Jeff Miller had posted a few years back that generally the power
source or the cordset are the issue. With the adapters taking us
from 50amp to 15amp, can't be sure if thats an issue, its always
worked before. Could be the source ground system? Not sure how to
check that.

HOT SKIN conditions are caused by?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Jay Darst
85PT40
SpringfieldIL