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fondon
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Jun 03, 2016

2002 southwind no interior slide lights

I have lost the interior slide lights over my couch,dinnet as well as my closet light and lights in the bedroom slide all fuses check good under the hood and back fuse box,all other 12 volt lights and such work. Any help would be much appreciated .Thanks.
  • You need to take your volt-ohm meter and find a good ground point, not on the slide. Then run a wire from that ground to the common input of the meter. Then check the light sockets for ground or power. Ohms between the good ground and the outside of the socket and volts between the good ground and the center pin on the socket.(make sure the switch is on) This will give you a starting point. Then you know what you are looking for.(power or ground) If you don't find power or ground, I would suspect a plug has become disconnected.
    You may have a connector or terminal strip under/behind the couch check it out. May have been bumped. If all that checks out. Find where the power/ground wires enter the slide and check for damage or loose plug.

    Since you have this problem on two slides, check for a place where the wires meet.(Are both slides on the same side?) The power/ground may feed through one slide to the other. OR there may be another fuse block or inline fuse. But I'm guessing from here on.

    Please get back with what you find. Good Luck!!
  • GPWayne wrote:
    You need to take your volt-ohm meter and find a good ground point, not on the slide. Then run a wire from that ground to the common input of the meter. Then check the light sockets for ground or power. Ohms between the good ground and the outside of the socket and volts between the good ground and the center pin on the socket.(make sure the switch is on) This will give you a starting point. Then you know what you are looking for.(power or ground) If you don't find power or ground, I would suspect a plug has become disconnected.
    You may have a connector or terminal strip under/behind the couch check it out. May have been bumped. If all that checks out. Find where the power/ground wires enter the slide and check for damage or loose plug.

    Since you have this problem on two slides, check for a place where the wires meet.(Are both slides on the same side?) The power/ground may feed through one slide to the other. OR there may be another fuse block or inline fuse. But I'm guessing from here on.

    Please get back with what you find. Good Luck!!
  • If you put the meter on ohms and go from ground to power, won't you blow the meter? Better checking voltage. With first one lead to good ground and then the other lead to different power sources and then put lead on good power source and other lead to each ground. With meter on 12volts dc
  • I should have been clearer about using a volt/ohm meter. Turn the meter to DC volts (range higher than 12 volts) When looking for power. If you do this first you will be safe to start looking for a ground......When looking for a ground use the ohms setting.

    As Hottubkid said, If you put voltage across an ohm meter you will damage the meter.

    I was assuming that if you owned a volt/ohm meter you would know how to use it.
  • I have an 02 SW there are 12v fuses in the panel under the bedroom tv where your slide switch is. Remove the small metal plate.
  • Update, found the issue, the 12volt wire feeding the main slide was burnt fleetwood ran it down the frame near the exhaust pipe repaired the wire and ran it in a different location. As far as the 12volt lights in the bedroom slide and closet it was nothing more than 3 bad switches that was bad replaced and all is working great, thanks for all the help.