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Side running lites/clearance lites won’t turn off
Went to the race shop the other day, looked down the side of the coach, and it looked like the running lights on the side of the coach were on. Thought maybe it was the bright sun reflecting on the lens, but I touched the lens and it was warm, the turning signal light above was cool. Went out that night and confirmed the those lights were “ON” on both sides of the coach as well as the high mounted front and back clearance lights. BUT the taillights were NOT on.
So I went inside the coach and used the rocker switch to cycle the headlights/running lights off and on a few times, put the rocker in the OFF position. Went out side and the lights were off. Huh … I wonder what caused that. Locked the coach up and went to go into the shop and as I was unlocking the man door, the running lights on the side of the went on! Looked around the coach and both sides were ON as well as the front and back clearance lights. BUT the taillights were NOT on!
I suspected a relay. Now I don’t know much about relays, but I kinda expected that relays were designed to fail in the OFF position. If this relay really failed, it failed in the ON position.
So I opened up the back engine doors and looked at the wiring information (see photo) and determined that “TAIL. LICENCE & SIDE MARKER LIGHTS” were R17. So I pulled R17 and the lights were STILL ON!!!!!
Shouldn’t the lights go out when relay is pulled? or do they stay on when the relay is pulled?
I’m also puzzled by the fact that tail lights are not on the side marker lights are ON (but the switch is OFF). After pulling R17 the tail lights stayed off.
The list of relays is silent about the front and back clearance lights up high, I’m just assuming they are also run off of R17.
Any thoughts or ideas or suggestions?
PS: Besides me seeing the lights on, all of the neighbors have called to tell me that I’ve “left bus lights on again”.
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Call
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Dick,
I had that happen on one of my XL’s, the relay got wet each time it rained in the steering bay and when corrected, no more problem.
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HUH. There is a relay in the steering bay for this? What I found was in the back of the coach. I’ll look in the steering bay and see what I can find. This started to happen after a dry spell and before we got lots of rain.
Thanks!
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Dick, I think the relay is next to the rose petal dispenser. You must have bumped it checking the rose petal level.
The running lights are meant to come on when the dispenser gets low so that the ‘delivery’ drone from Liberty can find you.
Thats the way ours works.
Mark
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I think it is getting squirrely here…
All seriousness aside, check for black walnuts.
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