For the benefit of others, after taking pictures of my wiring it became obvious that the insulation on my wires had degraded with bare wire exposed in many places, plus the connections weren’t using waterproof connectors. So I cut the bad ends off of the wires and re-did everything with waterproof connectors and put them in a junction box. The remaining exposed wires I covered with wiring conduit. All of this hopefully improves the quality of my connections and will make it last longer. It’s been over a week since I did this and so far my problem has not returned.
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