Tail lights won´t turn on
Hi all, My tail lights don´t turn on. All other lights are working properly, brakes lights work, turn signal and reverse lights work but tail light. I tried changing the bulbs even though they l...
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bsinmich - I agree with you 100% if the theory, engineering, as built, as modified, and as is today are all the same. But if a person has a used RV there is no telling what changes have been made by previous owners and repair techs. Also, some rigs have stupid setups that defy all logic right from the get go.
A case in point, a friend's motor home has one reading lamp that is not on any of the circuits that any of the other interior lights are on. No logic there. Now on the surface that sounds like no big deal. But this first living room reading lamp runs off the battery in the engine compartment. So while staying connected to shore power for a month or two, this lamp constantly draws on the engine's battery and when he went leave his engine compartment battery was dead.
Additionally there was no battery shut off for other batteries. That made no sense to me either given what he paid for the unit.
I wish I could remember some of the specifics of other quirks in his motor home's electrical system, but there were several. I do remember that when the battery bank went dead while in storage, that the batteries had to be charged with an external battery charger. Again, I don't remember the specifics. Just another quirk. Once the batteries were charged up, they stayed charged business as usual.
In my own fiver, I had a short in a 110v. circuit that tripped the breaker over and over. It took many hours over several tries to determine that closing the Molex connector in the wall caused an abrasion on the insulation on the black wire just ever so slightly, but it was just enough to allow it to connect with the ground. Our RV was seven years old when this problem appeared for the very first time. So darn near anything is possible.
A case in point, a friend's motor home has one reading lamp that is not on any of the circuits that any of the other interior lights are on. No logic there. Now on the surface that sounds like no big deal. But this first living room reading lamp runs off the battery in the engine compartment. So while staying connected to shore power for a month or two, this lamp constantly draws on the engine's battery and when he went leave his engine compartment battery was dead.
Additionally there was no battery shut off for other batteries. That made no sense to me either given what he paid for the unit.
I wish I could remember some of the specifics of other quirks in his motor home's electrical system, but there were several. I do remember that when the battery bank went dead while in storage, that the batteries had to be charged with an external battery charger. Again, I don't remember the specifics. Just another quirk. Once the batteries were charged up, they stayed charged business as usual.
In my own fiver, I had a short in a 110v. circuit that tripped the breaker over and over. It took many hours over several tries to determine that closing the Molex connector in the wall caused an abrasion on the insulation on the black wire just ever so slightly, but it was just enough to allow it to connect with the ground. Our RV was seven years old when this problem appeared for the very first time. So darn near anything is possible.
