Dome light problem
Ok so this morning I started swapping out my lights to LED and one of my fixtures now doesnt work. At first I thought it was a problem with the LEDs but when I put the old bulbs back in they wont wor...
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FLY 4 FUN wrote:
I have had the switches fail on those several times. The wall switch may work....but the switch on the actual dome light fails. Try putting 12v to each of the bulbs, I bet they work and the switch died!
Daryll
Good point and with a multimeter or test light, you can check the wiring at the back of the fixture, before the switch, to see if you have power. And as noted above, LED have to be hooked up with the correct polarity, ie, there is a definite hot and ground. Old incandescent bulbs don't care. But as you noted, you tried other bulbs and they don't work either so the problem is probably a bad wire or bad switch. The meter or test light will tell the story.
