Galley Lights

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dr tom
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Galley Lights

I have a 2014 13'
I’ve been having trouble with the double light over the galley. A couple of months after I got her, the light started having trouble. First it wouldn’t come on right away; would wait a while, then come on. Gradually that “while” got longer and longer, so that now it doesn’t come on at all.

I swapped out the bulbs into other sockets; they are all fine. I traced the power up to the wire-nut junction at the left end of the cabinets. Everything beyond that junction works (bed light, fan, outside light). But I can't check the wire from that junction to the fixture: it is embedded in fiberglass and the fixture itself is pop-riveted to the cabinet.

In the fixture, the socket itself fits into a tongue-and-slot deal. I pulled that out, but the wires are firmly attached/stuck into the socket. While I was wiggling them (to either get the wire out, or at least expose some bare wire that I could put a probe on), lo and behold the light came on (!) for ever so short a time.

Obviously, there is power getting there, but the wires are not touching.

Should I continue to wiggle the wire? or is there an easy way to detach the wires?

Enquiring minds.

vicjen
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It sounds like your socket is corroded. Disconnect the 12 volts to the lamp and sand the inside of the socket plus the center tip to the bulb. If it go’s on and off like that it is a connection problem.

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