Light shorts fuse?
Here's a very odd wiring issue ... lighting ... Will try to explain without photos. Light # 1 .... this is a 'metal cone shaped reading light' - above the bed. You can aim it, but it gets hot (...
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Lights are the same, here is the problem
With what is called a Bayonet style socket such as the 1141, 1156 1883 lamps there is a non-conductive disc, plastic or fiber material, which holds the center contact (Usually a black wire, but no reason it needs to be)
This disc breaks down due to heat and time and lets the center conductor move about .. touching the springs that press it against the bottom of the lamp and help to hold the lamp in the socket.. And blowing the fuse.
I have found replacement center discs (A pilot store but I've not been back to see if it's a stock item, it was on the clearance table) Auto parts stores can get 'em.. Most auto part stores do stock replacements for the 1157 type socket (Two center contacts, dual element lamp)
On one of my sockets I had no spares handy so I cut one out of glass epoxy circuit board... Now that one likely won't fail.
With what is called a Bayonet style socket such as the 1141, 1156 1883 lamps there is a non-conductive disc, plastic or fiber material, which holds the center contact (Usually a black wire, but no reason it needs to be)
This disc breaks down due to heat and time and lets the center conductor move about .. touching the springs that press it against the bottom of the lamp and help to hold the lamp in the socket.. And blowing the fuse.
I have found replacement center discs (A pilot store but I've not been back to see if it's a stock item, it was on the clearance table) Auto parts stores can get 'em.. Most auto part stores do stock replacements for the 1157 type socket (Two center contacts, dual element lamp)
On one of my sockets I had no spares handy so I cut one out of glass epoxy circuit board... Now that one likely won't fail.
