On our 2015 xlr29hfs, the light strip under the power awning will only switch on when the switch for the main living area light is on. is this correct? Or is there a mix up in the wiring?
Someone else recently posted the same issue, seems there was a misswire issue. I think they were able to pull the switches off the wall and find the wire.
Have not had this problem, but look under cabinet and in screw the corner panel pieces to access the back of the switches. The use one main power wire and jumper across switches. I'm guessing they jumped from from wrong side of living room switch. Move wire that is jumped across switches to the otherside of living room switch and that should take care of it.
Pull the switches and you will/should find two orange wires. One being a jumper wire between the switches and one with a blue terminal. It sounds like those two are reversed. Make the one with the blue terminal the jumper wire between the switches and the one that WAS jumping between the switches, make that one the one with the terminal. Now that I have you thoroughly confused, give it a try and let me know
Mine had that problem and my friends an electrician helped me reconfigure it, but afterwards the led strip does not light up as fast as it did. The strip sometimes has dark dpots, but after awhile they all light up. Not sure why that happened. I ended up only changing two leads and their position. Now each switch is independent.
Simple fix like Bulletbob describes. They simply connected wires wrong to the switches, and are feeding 12 volt to the awning light switch from the interior light switch rather from a clean B+ fed. Easy access by popping of the switch cover and removing a few screws; then pulling out the wires to gain access.
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Mine had that problem and my friends an electrician helped me reconfigure it, but afterwards the led strip does not light up as fast as it did. The strip sometimes has dark dpots, but after awhile they all light up. Not sure why that happened. I ended up only changing two leads and their position. Now each switch is independent.
There have been a lot of failures of the LED strips put on trailer for a year or so. What you describe is how they start to fail. Lower voltage can make this look worse so maybe the new connection you made doesn't have as much power. Also could just be bad timing and this was about to happen anyway. Search this forum for LED awning strips and you should find many threads about the failing lights.
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