RE: wiring a light switch?
What I am trying to determine is if the wire was cut by accident originally, spliced together in the box, and came apart during a trip, or if it was meant to be spliced all along. I have been told by an electrician that boxed switches should not have any cut wires in them, but I wanted to make certain that he is familiar with proper RV wiring.
(The box has a hot wire, a neutral and a ground in it. Whereas in a normal light switch you would have a wire terminating at a screw connection, and then a new one leaving to the next junction, in this box the wires run through a pair of metal pieces that sort of cut through the wire casing, allowing contact with the bare wire underneath, while still allowing for a single run of wire heading out to the next junction.)
wiring a light switch?
I have a 1995 Carriage Commander 5th wheel. The electric outlets and lights have quit working in one of the slides. I've traced the start of the problem to one of the light switches, but I'm unfamiliar with the boxed-switch design used by Carriage. It would seem that the wires should just pass through the box without being cut at all, and the only contact point is where they connect with the metal inside the box, but in the bad switch, the hot wire has been cut in two, and doesn't meet at all.
Does anyone here know the correct way to wire a box switch?
