Peculiar shower stall light

Tinnitus · September 2018

Newbie, here, with a used 2015 T@B 320S.

Last night - my 11th overnight in the trailer - I got up in the middle of the night for a bathroom break and I found a faint glow coming from the light in the shower/toilet stall. Visible above and through the safety glass.

Just the faintest bit of light, like a firefly. I open the door and turned on the light. Got full bright. Turned it off, and the faint bit of light continued. Just a small dot of light at the edge of the fixture near the switch - not the whole light. Absolutely not visible when the morning sun came up.

I'm about 95% sure I would have noticed this on a previous night, but I never have. Another T@B couple in the campground said theirs (another 2015) has never done this.

Any ideas?

falcon1970 · September 2018

Maybe a locator light--to find the switch in the dark?

N7SHG_Ham · September 2018

Possibly a bad connection, especially on the ground (negative) side. That would be for an LED bulb, an incandescent bulb requires too much current and I doubt if a bad ground would allow a glow condition. I would check bulb socket for corrosion due to operating in a damp environment.

jgram2 · September 2018

Potty nightlight as discussed here?
https://tab-rv.vanillacommunity.com/discussion/comment/94462#Comment_94462

Tinnitus · September 2018

jgram2, that link does sound like what's going on with my shower light. Strange, though, that I would not have noticed it before. It was hard to miss last night. Home now, and it'll be a couple of weeks before we take the trailer out again.

Guess I need to email the Nucamp folks.

Sharon_is_SAM · September 2018

The switch on the over-counter light strip glows in the dark, too.

Tinnitus · September 2018

I think I would have noticed that in the nighttime when I was sitting on the edge of the bed wondering about the shower light, but I will look at it more closely the next time we take the trailer out.

I''m obsessing over power drain right now. I don't have a battery cut-off switch for some reason. Don't know why, but I'll be addressing that tomorrow.

Peculiar shower stall light

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