opnspaces wrote:
Good looking trailer. Did you repaint the green stripe on the outside or is it just in good condition?
As far as your lights the first thing I would do is try to verify if I lost the ground or the power. Find a way to test a good working fixture so you can reliably identify good power and good ground. Now get a long enough piece of wire and open the first non working light fixture. Connect your long jumper wire between the ground on the non working light and the ground on the working light. If the light now works you know you have a broken ground or bad socket.
If still no light take the jumper wire and try to feed power from the good fixture to the bad fixture. Based on what you find you might be able to pull the good and bad lights off the ceiling and run a wire between them by going up into the ceiling and back down at the other light.
Are you sure that the broken fuse holder isn't the problem for the non working lights?
Yes the green was repainted with vinyl paint (it's a vinyl siding after all, so it works quite well) We're thinking of giving a coat of paint to the rest of it as well and painting big 60's style flower power stuff on it just for giggles. Yes, this place is our little piece of silly too.
I'm not sure if the broken fuse holder is the issue since it's broken and I can't test it, but I was thinking of swapping the lights out for LED ones (to save power) and if I did that I might be able to use the working lights to build some form of chain to provide lights.
The volt meter I have is a very good one that measures and gives a display, it read 0.00V on it when I measured, and I did the working one and got around 11.9 or something I forget the exact number.
My wife and I have been working and modelling the place pretty much to get it to be liveable, we don't mind "roughing it" a little bit since well it's not exactly the ritz! It's in good shape though.
Next year the solar panel will get hooked up, I plan on buying a new foam mattress that I can cut up and make fit in the bedroom place for us, tired of feeling the cushion separators on my back. We purchased a small egg crate mattress and that helps but it is sweaty and warm.
Looks like I may be doing some reqiring as suggested and do a connection and see, it may just be that the mice snacked on one location that was available and that broke the chain.
What kind of LED lights would you suggest? I don't mind putting a bit of output to the trailer since it is my home away from home and I enjoy working on it!