Slide out dinnete lights

This thread goes back a bit but I will post what I just found. It could be a bad connection in the wiring above the slide ceiling.

We have two LED recessed puck lights in our slide and the switch was on the ceiling and hard to reach when sitting down. The lights have flickered since the TT was purchased new - sometimes not much, and sometimes more. Very annoying and I expected to find that the lights were defective and needed replacing. I just added a 3-way (aka on/on) switch at each end of the sofa and when I removed the switch wires from the hole in the ceiling, one wire came out of the female crimp spade terminal. Then the same thing happened to the 2nd terminal. What I found was that whoever did the crimping at the factory used the crimper on the end of the plastic insulation where there is no part of the metal sleeve underneath. Not only that, when the worker stripped the insulation off the end of the wire, he/she removed about 1/2 of the individual strands and thus making for an even worse connection to the terminal.

I would use a voltmeter and check for 12 volts at the switch for the lights. Could also be due to a bad connection between the flex cable under the slide and the wiring up to the lights. Based on things I've seen myself to date, the splice could be hidden tho.

I have had so many 12 & 120 volt problems in our Spree I am really tired of it and am still finding them 3+ years later. If anyone is having electrical issues, take a look at splices, terminals and connections...




Gil, Deb and Dougal the Springer Spaniel
2014 KZ Spree 262RKS
2009 F250