Flourescent light issue

[zboy59]

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

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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.
> >
> > 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 ...
> >
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