My LED lights are flickering

[mikeygesus]

This just started on our current trip.
2021 Reflection 31mb, connected to shore power.

My ceiling LED lights only flicker (when they are off) when I am running my tank heater (on top of other appliances). When I turn the tank heater off and leave everything thing else on, it stops flickering . I hope it’s just a sign that my battery is going bad (since I’ve accidentally let it go dead a couple of times) and not my power converter.

In my inexperienced rationale, the failing battery simply can’t keep up a good charge. Although, I don’t understand why the lights flicker when they are off???


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[JustUs&doggo]

Flickering when off....usually means back feeding. Could be a chafed wire, bad switch, loose connection on the switch panel, bad connection on the fuse panel...mouse damage, bad ground....

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[mikeygesus]

Flickering when off....usually means back feeding. Could be a chafed wire, bad switch, loose connection on the switch panel, bad connection on the fuse panel...mouse damage, bad ground....

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Dear lord….


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[Ynot4me2]

How's your battery level? Mine did that once and I discovered that my battery was low. I had accidentally hit the batt disconnect. The ceiling led are 12v. Are they always flickering? Are they the only ones that flicker? Any other 12v items not working as it should?

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[mikeygesus]

How's your battery level? Mine did that once and I discovered that my battery was low. I had accidentally hit the batt disconnect. The ceiling led are 12v. Are they always flickering? Are they the only ones that flicker? Any other 12v items not working as it should?

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Now that I looked closely, they do have a subtle flicker when they are on, too. My battery voltage was at 11.6 when I shut everything down. I think I’ll start with replacing the battery.
…and everything else seems to be working fine. It only seems like they flicker when I turn on my tank heaters. Those combined with other high draw appliances seem to cause the flicker.

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[Ynot4me2]

Now that I looked closely, they do have a subtle flicker when they are on, too. My battery voltage was at 11.6 when I shut everything down. I think I’ll start with replacing the battery.
…and everything else seems to be working fine. It only seems like they flicker when I turn on my tank heaters. Those combined with other high draw appliances seem to cause the flicker.

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11.6 is low. Was that measured after you disconnected from shore power? You could have a faulty converter?

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[mikeygesus]

11.6 is low. Was that measured after you disconnected from shore power? You could have a faulty converter?

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Yes, after I disconnected.
As I mentioned above, I’ve let my battery go dead while in storage a couple of times. Probably wouldn’t hurt to replace the battery and go from there?


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[mikeygesus]

New battery seems to have solved the “ on” position flickering! We’ll see tonight after dark to see if I can see the “off” position flickering.


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[Ynot4me2]

New battery seems to have solved the “ on” position flickering! We’ll see tonight after dark to see if I can see the “off” position flickering.


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That's great, hopefully this will solve your problem.

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[Alfredo]

I had 2 lights flickering on my 2021 295rl. The ceiling one above the door when you walk in and the larger one under the hutch. They flickered on and off regularly on our 2 month trip out west. When we got back they replaced both of them. They were faulty, The dealership said they have had to replace a number of the ones under the hutch.