Flourescent light issue

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one ballast for each light

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--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "zboy59" wrote:
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> I have an issue with the front interior flourescent lighting on an '86 PT40.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The exterior light that runs off the same power loop works fine all the time,
but those are incandescent so ....
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> I've discovered many time that a simple ground issue kills lights.
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> Anyone dealt with the ballasts in this part of the bus ? One ? Three ?
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> Where is it ... and what contemporary model number is it if it's just one ?
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> I'd like to fix it the first time I have to tear that open ...
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