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TAF backbox lights only working when pushing them in hard

By MintIndeed

4 years ago



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#4 4 years ago
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OK so I actually discovered something new here. I had blinking bulbs in the bayonet sockets, and when I tried it with non-blinking bulbs they lit just fine. I also discovered a couple of the blinking bulbs had gone bad, in spite of being only a few weeks old.
So here we go:
I had blinking bulbs in the bayonet sockets for about a month and they worked just fine, until they didn't.
When I removed ~1–2 of the blinking bulbs, the others started working just fine.
Right now I swapped 1 blinking bulb for 1 regular bulb and replaced the bad bulbs, and now all is good.
But I have no idea why having several blinking bulbs in would work fine for a while, and then just...not work. No fuses blown, no random resets, no problems at all that I've seen, other than the bulbs.

Are you using LEDS? Did you inspect the wiring going from bulb to bulb?Some LEDS are wacky I’ve had this problem before they would be fine then go out do To vibration.I placed LED in and with a pair of pliers I tightened the socket cause they were a bit stretched.Also if they are the LEDS with one leg pin on one side and one leg pin on the other side those will give you problems

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