They always work but after turning them on usually after a few blinks, they start to blink fast, then slow no real pattern that I can come up with. Not the end of the world but curious if anyone else has had this issue?
Forgive me if this hijacks your question, Paul ... I have the same problem with my old eyes in the morning, and when sobering up
"Clearly" however, Bill is on the right track for a place to start. Check the seating of all your lamps - one or more may need a corrosion cleanup. Then adding a little dielectric grease before reassembly can prevent further corrosion. Dielectric grease, such as made by Permatex and others, is
non-conductive.
I sometimes use what's called "bulb grease" directly on contact points because bulb grease, unlike dielectric grease, is
conductive. But if more than a film of it is used, there is risk of it shorting a smidge of current between proximal contacts, so I only use it very sparingly and judiciously.
There are several videos out there, but here is a sampling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQZ0hfqVNe8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W7o-CRRmGo (this one apologizes after-the-fact for calling dielectric conductive, but it's otherwise a decent video)
For exposed connectors you can use one of Ed Buker's favorites, Corrosion-X spray, as a cover-up. I use it on exposed nuts/posts, etc., for example in the electrical bay streetside forwardmost where a little overspray is okay; but I like the greases for the smaller contact points themselves, and bullet connectors, pins, etc.
Keep in mind that grease attracts dirt, so when I say "sparingly" or "thin film", I'm sincere. You don't want globs of grease laying around connections, useless to the electric service intended, and collecting road grime. Q-tips are handy as applicators.
-Joel
Addendum: for those of you reading this using Google Chrome, I just discovered it is the only one of my several browser options that for whatever reason does not render the italics operator I used above on the words "conductive" and "non-conductive". If like mine, the result was those words being eliminated from the text altogether, and it not making sense, it appears to be the fault of Chrome and nothing else. I also note that the italicized words describing the last edit (immediately below this post) are missing entirely from between the brackets when using Chrome. I don't know if this is an issue for all Chrome users or a glitch peculiar to mine, but Administrators here may want to check with the webmaster for SMF just in case. Thanks.