JeffPax
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I have a large 5?er. We live in it half of the year for work all over the country, and have for the last 5 years. A week ago, the two individual lights in the living room slide went dim. (LED?s)
This went on for some time despite fiddling with the switches with no change. Then, on their own, they went bright for a few seconds, then dim for a short while, then off. This process more or less repeated for 2 days, then they stayed off. As a side, it seemed that one light was slaved to the other one.
The same night this started, when we went to bed (which is also a slide), I turned on the reading light to read, which I don?t normally do. I remarked to my wife, who reads all the time, how very bright the LED?s that I had put in the reading lights were. I wanted to show her the difference between these and the original bulbs, and went to where I had stored them to swap it out. I pulled the LED and replaced it with the one incandescent I had found. It didn?t light up. I thought that the filament must have been damaged in storage. I reinstalled the LED, and now it didn?t work! It was extremely dim, barely lit, even worse than the living room bulbs. It had worked perfectly only seconds before. And now my wife?s was barely lit as well (slaved?) Fiddling with the switch on mine a few times, it began to work, as did hers, and I read a little while, shut it off, and went to sleep. Currently, neither light works at all. And after testing the incandescent in another fixture, the filament is fine.
The living room slide lights are the incandescent surface mount, single dome, slide switch variety while bedroom slide has the pivoting/rotating reading light with the rotary switch. All bulbs were replaced with led?s 4 years ago. Being unsure of which circuit these lights were on, I did check the fuses, and all had continuity.
Now this morning, the hot water heater did not fire of while wife was on the shower. I went out, pulled the thermal, plugged back in, and no click from the valve could be heard, but the igniter did trigger. So I unplugged and replugged again. This time the valve clicked open, igniter triggered, and it lit. Also this morn, the outside porch light (also led) was flashing like a fluorescent light with bad ballast. I figure it will quit working entirely very soon. Both porch light and water heater are located passenger side, while original light problem in slides was driver side.
As a side, I replaced the batteries one year ago with AGM's from bass pro, and the converter is 3 years new, progressive dynamics.
This went on for some time despite fiddling with the switches with no change. Then, on their own, they went bright for a few seconds, then dim for a short while, then off. This process more or less repeated for 2 days, then they stayed off. As a side, it seemed that one light was slaved to the other one.
The same night this started, when we went to bed (which is also a slide), I turned on the reading light to read, which I don?t normally do. I remarked to my wife, who reads all the time, how very bright the LED?s that I had put in the reading lights were. I wanted to show her the difference between these and the original bulbs, and went to where I had stored them to swap it out. I pulled the LED and replaced it with the one incandescent I had found. It didn?t light up. I thought that the filament must have been damaged in storage. I reinstalled the LED, and now it didn?t work! It was extremely dim, barely lit, even worse than the living room bulbs. It had worked perfectly only seconds before. And now my wife?s was barely lit as well (slaved?) Fiddling with the switch on mine a few times, it began to work, as did hers, and I read a little while, shut it off, and went to sleep. Currently, neither light works at all. And after testing the incandescent in another fixture, the filament is fine.
The living room slide lights are the incandescent surface mount, single dome, slide switch variety while bedroom slide has the pivoting/rotating reading light with the rotary switch. All bulbs were replaced with led?s 4 years ago. Being unsure of which circuit these lights were on, I did check the fuses, and all had continuity.
Now this morning, the hot water heater did not fire of while wife was on the shower. I went out, pulled the thermal, plugged back in, and no click from the valve could be heard, but the igniter did trigger. So I unplugged and replugged again. This time the valve clicked open, igniter triggered, and it lit. Also this morn, the outside porch light (also led) was flashing like a fluorescent light with bad ballast. I figure it will quit working entirely very soon. Both porch light and water heater are located passenger side, while original light problem in slides was driver side.
As a side, I replaced the batteries one year ago with AGM's from bass pro, and the converter is 3 years new, progressive dynamics.
