GFI Faults and interior light replacemts

[Chuck Wheeler]

I had to problem areas that caused our BB to trip a GFI. One was the AC indicator panel, easily fixed by changing some resistor values, and the second was two of the electric heaters. one had a drooping element touching the case and the other had the common and neutral ties together. It is not real easy to trace ground faults. I had to disconnect ALL the leads( hot, common, neutral)for each feed from the breakers and then reconnect them one at a time to see which tripped the GFI. Worked at it on and off for a whole weekend but now no more tripping GFI.

I replaced ALL the ballasts in our BB with the new ballasts fro Stephen Birtles. They now turn on reliably and we have plenty of light. I used double sided tape and just stuck the new ballasts to the back of the fixture. It took about a half a day to replace all ballasts.

- Chuck Wheeler-

1982 FC 31SB Fort Worth TX

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From: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jcpryn
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 10:46 PM
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] GFI Faults and interior light replacemts

Hello,

Helping a friend with his BB 84fc35' and out of the blue he started
getting immediate ground faults. We shut off all of the breakers and
still getting the fault. plugged the cord in by it's self and no
faults, but as soon as it's plugged into the BB the GFI trips.

Any ideas?

On another subject I have several lights in the coach that either don't
work or are very weak. I know I can replace the ballast for each
one. What I don't know is that if that will fix all of them and if it
does will I be happy with the amount of light? Anybody replace the
stock ceiling lights with something more moderern?

thanks
John