Oscillating lights

[rickbird]

Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

[SCVJeff]

rickbird wrote:
Oscillates under shore power after a period of time with multiple lights on. 2006 Montana

Around 2007 on the way into Death Valley we were camping with friends in a new Monaco that was doing exactly what you describe; generator on with lots of lights, "oscillating" somewhere around 30-60 sec (don't remember), dim, bright, dim.. It turned out to be an under-rated auto-reset circuit breaker between the batteries and the charger.. I think it was a 40A breaker on a 60A charger that was simply too small. A trip to NAPA fixed the problem.

Mebbe you have something similar...

[luvourtoys]

When our convertor went out last season the lights (including the refrigerator light) started oscillating along with the furnace blower, eventually nothing on 12V would work. We bought a replacement on Amazon for a couple hundred bucks and swapped it right out, problem fixed!

[Allworth]

Shorted cell?

[ScottG]

Old-Biscuit wrote:

Learjet wrote:

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Battery failing and out of water and/or bad converter.

YEP......

Agreed, classic symptoms.

[rickbird]

Oscillates under shore power after a period of time with multiple lights on. 2006 Montana

[SCVJeff]

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Make
Model
Flickering when: shore or battery
What kind of load, a few lights or lots
What's the oscillation rate
???

[Executive45]

Could be haunted...:)....Dennis

[Old-Biscuit]

Learjet wrote:

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Battery failing and out of water and/or bad converter.

YEP......

[Learjet]

rickbird wrote:
Anybody know what would cause the 12 volt lights to start oscillating?

Battery failing and out of water and/or bad converter.