Clearance Lights Trouble--Fixed :)
Have one string of three back clearance lights that won't light now. Two did and an end one didn't before I tried to fix that one. Each fixture has one lamp terminal to a screw hole so it grounds ...
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Update-Fixed. (This was on the 1981 Frontier camper) The right tail light green wire went inside so never learned if it turned yellow going up. Or it might be all be behind the left one which I didn't take out.
Anyway, the string of three reds up on the right that were dead went on with power to the yellow wire where I cut into it up there so it was not a ground issue. To supply that yellow I bridge-wired over to the left externally.
I didn't use the trickle charger as power. Just linked #3 and #4 in the camper 7-pin so the camper battery was supply instead of the truck.
Three reds in the middle of the camper. Linked yellow wire for the left one that was working with the dead right one's and that lit up the other two farther on the right as well. So all lights on. :)
Culprit was the middle lamp of the three in the middle. It was working ok it seemed, but I noted it was a different fixture that a previous owner must have installed. Took it off and there was the yellow for it with a loose contact and some stray wires that could touch the skin. Seems that was blowing the truck fuses when fiddled with and not making contact with the other lamps. Or whatever--what a waste of a day! Oh well, owning an RV is not for the weak! :(
Thanks for the good tips everybody. Got me on the right path, including using past threads on clearance lights in Search. The Forum saved me again. :)
Anyway, the string of three reds up on the right that were dead went on with power to the yellow wire where I cut into it up there so it was not a ground issue. To supply that yellow I bridge-wired over to the left externally.
I didn't use the trickle charger as power. Just linked #3 and #4 in the camper 7-pin so the camper battery was supply instead of the truck.
Three reds in the middle of the camper. Linked yellow wire for the left one that was working with the dead right one's and that lit up the other two farther on the right as well. So all lights on. :)
Culprit was the middle lamp of the three in the middle. It was working ok it seemed, but I noted it was a different fixture that a previous owner must have installed. Took it off and there was the yellow for it with a loose contact and some stray wires that could touch the skin. Seems that was blowing the truck fuses when fiddled with and not making contact with the other lamps. Or whatever--what a waste of a day! Oh well, owning an RV is not for the weak! :(
Thanks for the good tips everybody. Got me on the right path, including using past threads on clearance lights in Search. The Forum saved me again. :)
