Post by johnr on Aug 1, 2016 8:24:48 GMT -5
Hi, thought I'd post the interesting issue we had this past weekend camping. We've had our RV for years now and I've never had this rocker panel apart before.
Directly inside the door is a rocker panel with 3 switches for the living room lights, hall light and outside door light. At random points over the weekend, the living room lights would spontaneously turn on without us hitting the switch. I figured that it was a loose wire inside the panel causing the problem but waited until I got it home to tear it apart.
They were normal stranded wires, but the strands were too long on the bottom connector and were simply folded back over the connector. The top connector was coming into contact with these strands causing the light to go on even when the switch was off.
I thought it was really weird to have the problem after all these years! Seems to me that we should've seen something in the past. Just weird.
Anyway, since the connectors were all tight, I just slid a piece of electrical tape between the two connectors and wrapped it around the bottom connector so that the strands were no longer exposed.
Directly inside the door is a rocker panel with 3 switches for the living room lights, hall light and outside door light. At random points over the weekend, the living room lights would spontaneously turn on without us hitting the switch. I figured that it was a loose wire inside the panel causing the problem but waited until I got it home to tear it apart.
They were normal stranded wires, but the strands were too long on the bottom connector and were simply folded back over the connector. The top connector was coming into contact with these strands causing the light to go on even when the switch was off.
I thought it was really weird to have the problem after all these years! Seems to me that we should've seen something in the past. Just weird.
Anyway, since the connectors were all tight, I just slid a piece of electrical tape between the two connectors and wrapped it around the bottom connector so that the strands were no longer exposed.
