Flourescent light issue

[GARY MINKER]

Look for an intermittent molex plug Gary 85pt40 --- On Sat, 3/20/10, zboy59 wrote: From: zboy59 Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Flourescent light issue To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:11 AM Thanks guys ! Now that I know it's not the ballast ... I can trace wiring. I've had the switch bank apart and found nothing there. Must be wiring elsewhere. Marty 86 PT40 Kalamazoo --- In WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com, "cape0001" wrote: > > one ballast for each light > > Stephen 97 BMC 35 > 77 fc for sale > > --- In WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com, "zboy59" wrote: > > > > I have an issue with the front interior flourescent lighting on an '86 PT40. > > > > There are three switches over the entry door that control the flourescent lights in the forward area of my bus.(Over the sofa, and side mini-desk salon area). > > > > These lights will not work for long periods of time at all, then suddenly work fine for a long period, then back again to inoperative. > > > > I'm trying to determine if they all run off a SINGLE ballast. If so, that is probably my problem, if they're all independantly ballasted ... then I have an intermittent short of some sort to run down. > > > > The exterior light that runs off the same power loop works fine all the time, but those are incandescent so .... > > > > I've discovered many time that a simple ground issue kills lights. > > > > Anyone dealt with the ballasts in this part of the bus ? One ? Three ? > > > > Where is it ... and what contemporary model number is it if it's just one ? > > > > I'd like to fix it the first time I have to tear that open ... > > >