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Midlant Midlant is offline
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Default Anchor light problem

Yes, several. Found a bad contact where the anchor light slides into
it's mount. The positive contact was good, ground side wasn't.
John


"sherwindu" wrote in message
...
This may seem obvious, but have you tried a different bulb? If you
are just
testing
for continuity through the bulb itself, that may not give you the full
story on
how the
bulb behaves under power. The bulb should be the equivalent of a
simple
resistor,
but who knows.
Sherwin D.

Midlant wrote:

I have a 2 pole socket. One hot one ground. I have power to the one
contact. Bulb is good, but will not light in the socket.
With the bulb in the socket and power on, I test light will read lit
on
either bulb terminal (I can fit the test light underneath the open
socket.
Makes no sense to me.
Bulb out of socket, one terminal has power, the other don't.
Bulb won't light.
Bulb in socket and power is getting thru the bulb and test probe
light
will light on backside of either terminal.

Ideas?

This is on a 1987 Starcraft 22ft center console (aluminum).
Thanks
John