Interior lighting gremlins
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Interior lighting gremlins
The overhead lights in my slide and in my bathroom keeps blowing fuses. Not sure if the bathroom light is on the same circuit as the slide because i am not sure if the bathroom light is bad. What is the best way to trouble shoot?
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The blow the same fuse or different fuses and 12-volt lights?
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Since the bathroom light is not on a slide, I am thinking the short is going to be in the lights that are in the slide-out and the short has occurred with the movement of the slide-out. That is a common occurrence and can be difficult to locate. See if you can locate the wire run under the slide-out in question where the 12-volt power comes into the wall. The wiring for the slide normally runs under the slide and then up the wall of the slide.
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On the inside of my slides there is a wall plate at the bottom near the floor. I would assume that is where the wiring comes in from the underside of the slide and makes the connection with the inside wiring.
That being the case couldn't a person isolate the inside wiring right there to determine a short?
That being the case couldn't a person isolate the inside wiring right there to determine a short?
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On the inside of my slides there is a wall plate at the bottom near the floor. I would assume that is where the wiring comes in from the underside of the slide and makes the connection with the inside wiring.
That being the case couldn't a person isolate the inside wiring right there to determine a short?
That being the case couldn't a person isolate the inside wiring right there to determine a short?
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. My electrical issues are non related. The bathroom light is lazy switch that works when it wants to.
The blown fuse issue was the wrong bulb in a light fixture. I remember needing a bulb so I took it from a light in the slide that doesn't get used. It is a dual base 1078 bulb. I took the bad bulb and placed in the fixture and it was a single base 1141. When the single base touched both bases in the fixture it would short out blowing the fuse.
If I would have paid greater attention to the bulbs when I swapped them then this would have been a non issue.
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. My electrical issues are non related. The bathroom light is lazy switch that works when it wants to.The blown fuse issue was the wrong bulb in a light fixture. I remember needing a bulb so I took it from a light in the slide that doesn't get used. It is a dual base 1078 bulb. I took the bad bulb and placed in the fixture and it was a single base 1141. When the single base touched both bases in the fixture it would short out blowing the fuse.
If I would have paid greater attention to the bulbs when I swapped them then this would have been a non issue.
Nobody is immune to stupidity
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