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Old 06-11-2019, 09:57 PM   #1
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Lightbulb Help with dim lights

A few months ago I could hardly spell RV. Then October 10th came and category 5 Hurricane Michael rolled through and devastated Panama City and now my wife and I are full timing in a 2013 Prime Time Mfg Sanibel 3400 while our house is being worked on, and will be living in this for several more months. Thanks to this forum I have learned a lot about maintaining one of these vehicles. I'm fairly handy and have fixed several things that needed attention, but something weird happened the other night and I don't know what to do. My wife shook out a towel she was getting ready to fold and it hit one of the overhead lights over the recliners in the living area. Besides that fixture which has several LED lights in it there is a track light over the recliners with two track light fixtures on it. Next to the recliners is the dining area and there are two individual fixtures each with their own switch and having the bulbs that have multiple LEDs on a bayonet mount. The weird thing is that all of these lights are now at least half as bright as they used to be. They all light so figure fuse and or breaker should be OK, but do not know what could be the issue or where to start. All other lights every where else are fine.
Any help would certainly be appreciated.
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Old 06-11-2019, 10:13 PM   #2
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Drop that fixture out of the ceiling if you can and check the connections going to it. Most lights just have butt connectors. Assuming you have good batteries or are plugged in? LEDs do weird stuff with low voltage.
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Old 06-12-2019, 10:49 AM   #3
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AvidFlyer, thanks for the quick response. I have no idea how to get at this fixture, as there does not seem to be anything obvious, but will check it out later to see if I can drop it out of the ceiling in the slide it is mounted in and go from there.

Note that I ran a 50amp circuit to an RV outlet box that I mounted on our back porch. Then I made a 50amp custom cable (#6AWG) to connect up so we have plenty of power.
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