Exterior Light Wiring

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BigGrover
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Exterior Light Wiring

Just wondering if anyone knows how the wiring is run to the exterior light by the entry door?  Is it from the ceiling down to the fixture or run up from the floor?  I want To add a folding deck cleat to the outside of my Scamp 13 for two reasons - to bungee the door during travel after hearing about door issues and to use it to tether my dog' leash while at the camp ground.  Need to drill the lower half of the camper for the mounting bolts in the vicinity below the exterior light.  Don't want to run the risk if drilling into the wires.

 

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Light switch

I wish I could turn the outside light on from inside the camper so if someone comes to the door at night I could see if it is Freddy Krueger or not!

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Exterior Light Switch -- Inside Switch

This would be fairly easy to accomplish, especially in a fiberglass Scamp.

Simply reverse the wiring for the light. By this I mean, make the positive wire always hot at the light socket, then you can run multiple wires to multiple switches and provide a ground connection to turn the light on. This is the same principle as your car's dome lights, the positive is always hot at the dome light and whenever a door is opened the switch simply grounds itself to the car's body, thereby completing the circuit.

You can also apply this principle to other interior lights as well, for example: to make a "3-Way" type switch for your cabin light you can simply wire two switches that connect to ground and if you turn off one of them the lights go out, an especially neat trick to keep from getting out of bed just to turn out the lights, simply turn off the new switch you installed near the bed.

As Always,

Happy Scamping !!!