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Originally Posted by Persistent
Cutting the ground pin off will not protect you from shocks. It will allow the frame and metal skin to be hot when plugged into shore power.
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If the frame and skin is hot and you complete that circuit to ground, you are the alternate path to ground. THAT is what causes a GFCI to trip, so yes it will protect you.
The ground conductor was an early design to limit shocks, by connecting one conductor to earth ground, cutting in half the chance of a shock.
Now with sensitive electronics in the GFCI, they are protecting both conductors from a earth ground shock.
Have you noticed that the ground conductor is disappearing on some equipment. My pressure washer has a GFCI protected, ungrounded plug.