Oscillating lights

rickbird wrote:
Oscillates under shore power after a period of time with multiple lights on. 2006 Montana

Around 2007 on the way into Death Valley we were camping with friends in a new Monaco that was doing exactly what you describe; generator on with lots of lights, "oscillating" somewhere around 30-60 sec (don't remember), dim, bright, dim.. It turned out to be an under-rated auto-reset circuit breaker between the batteries and the charger.. I think it was a 40A breaker on a 60A charger that was simply too small. A trip to NAPA fixed the problem.

Mebbe you have something similar...

When our convertor went out last season the lights (including the refrigerator light) started oscillating along with the furnace blower, eventually nothing on 12V would work. We bought a replacement on Amazon for a couple hundred bucks and swapped it right out, problem fixed!

Shorted cell?

Old-Biscuit wrote:

Learjet wrote:

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Battery failing and out of water and/or bad converter.

YEP......

Agreed, classic symptoms.

Oscillates under shore power after a period of time with multiple lights on. 2006 Montana

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Make
Model
Flickering when: shore or battery
What kind of load, a few lights or lots
What's the oscillation rate
???

Could be haunted...:)....Dennis

Learjet wrote:

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Battery failing and out of water and/or bad converter.

YEP......

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Battery failing and out of water and/or bad converter.