I'm Jason Epperson. This is RV Miles, and it's time for the latest in RV in camping news.

During last week's RV Industry Association board meeting, members unanimously agreed to delay

enforcement of a major new electrical requirement for RVs. The rule taken from the 2023 and

26 National Electric Code would require all new RVs to include a device called a ground

monitor interrupter or GMI, which checks for a proper ground connection before allowing power

into the RV and cuts power if that ground is lost. The mandate was supposed to begin next year,

but the industry says there are simply not enough fully developed certified GMI devices available yet to meet that deadline. The standard steering committee will

recommend a new date at the March board meeting. For now, enforcement is expected to line up

with the start of the 2028 model year, roughly June 1st, 2027. But that could change depending

on device availability. There's been a lot of mixed

and erroneous information about these, including some AI articles out there that have been

just completely wrong about this. A lot of people thought these were devices that were going to be

on the campground pedestal, or that if you had an older RV, it wouldn't be compatible with

campground pedestals anymore.

That misinformation led RV electricity expert Mike Sokol to issue a press release recently,

clearing up the matter. He says that a GMI is mounted inside the RV before your power

distribution panel. In fact, it's right behind the power inlet. If the GMI inside the RV

doesn't detect a proper low-resistance ground

connection from the pedestal, it will disconnect the connection to the shore power cord

and won't allow AC power to reach the RV's electrical system in order to prevent hot-skin

voltage where parts of the RV are electrified, causing a hazard. He says GMI devices will not

be installed in any campground pedestals, and there. He says GMI devices will not be installed in any campground

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