1951 rv trailer

[enireh]

the trailer is wired with two wires throughout. hot and neutral I am installing a new breaker box, should the neutral and ground bars be separated? the trailer will not be moving will GFCI breakers cover the circuit safely with no ground?

 

[dmxtothemax]

the trailer is wired with two wires throughout. hot and neutral I am installing a new breaker box, should the neutral and ground bars be separated? the trailer will not be moving will GFCI breakers cover the circuit safely with no ground?

Yes ground and neutral should be seperate especially if you want to use a gfci at some stage.
The neutral and ground are usually bonded in one place only.
usually in the main panel.

And Yes gfci will provide safety without a ground.

 

[Little Bill]

the trailer is wired with two wires throughout. hot and neutral I am installing a new breaker box, should the neutral and ground bars be separated? the trailer will not be moving will GFCI breakers cover the circuit safely with no ground?

should the neutral and ground bars be separated?

Kind of a moot point due to this:

the trailer is wired with two wires throughout

With that said, the RV would be treated like a mobile home with the service disconnect outside. The panel in the RV would be a subpanel.
If this is being inspected you will have to run a 4-wire from the outside disconnect to the panel inside. Also the frame would need to be grounded/bonded.

 

[kwired]

If the supply is 15/20 amp 120 volts, there wouldn't ordinarily be many instances where the supply receptacle wouldn't be required to have GFCI protection. Though bonding the neutral and EGC together is in itself a code violation, it will also introduce nuisance trip incidents if you are supplied by a GFCI.

 

[petersonra]

If one is going to go to the trouble to try and patch up the electrical system in a 60 year old trailer, why not just rip it out and do it right?

 

[cpinetree]

If one is going to go to the trouble to try and patch up the electrical system in a 60 year old trailer, why not just rip it out and do it right?

:thumbsup: :happyyes:

 

[ActionDave]

I'm thinking just the opposite. Sixty year old trailer with the electrical still in service.....Don't disturb anything, you might set off a chain reaction.

 

[cpinetree]

If I'm going to be sleeping in it, it gets rewired!
I wouldn't trust the insulation on the wire among other things.