Repairing christmas mini lights

Check the fuses: If one of your light strings isn’t working at all, or if only half of the lights are working, unplug. If the fuses look okay, or if you don’t have fuses: If the fuses appear to be okay—or if your light set doesn’t have. An easier option: With. It combines a voltage detector, bulb.

Unfortunately, they are also notorious for being finicky holiday decorations.

Alternatively, buy a cheaper light bulb. Tackle the project hands-on with a homemade tool. Plug in the strand of lights , and remove a bulb to connect the Light Keeper Pro to an empty socket.

Pull the trigger on the Light Keeper several times to bypass the bad bulb and light the whole stran leaving the bad bulb dim. Once you find the one without voltage, you can replace the bulb and see if that does the trick! If a fuse is black or has a broken wire inside, gently pry out the blown fuse with a thin screwdriver.

The following involves working with electricity.

I am working with a light string which consists of two parallel circuits that. It does not have the same features as the Light Keeper, but will help out and is cheaper than a new set of lights. A wide range of bulbs and strings are available, but this article is about mini bulb strings, because they are surprisingly complicated and commonly misunderstood. Step 3: Circuit Explanation. Locate the tiny fuses (there should be two: one on each side of the AC line, inside the AC plug).

The door will either slide out or will have to be pried away, depending on the set of lights you have. Swap out a fuse with a replacement fuse (this typically is included with the lights purchase). Make sure you remove the entire damaged portion, or you will have to perform the process again.

We couldn’t fix it by replacing the bulb right where the light string stopped working, so I looked into it and found this helpful (but a little too technical) article. Make sure the lights are completely unplugged from any electrical socket before you start your repair. The string of lights won’t light up.

The fix: Pick up the pronged “male” plug at the end of the strand. Bulb won’t work or a section. Buy an extra set or two of lights in case you need more. If any lights at all are lit in the string, we have power and good fuses and can move on.

If no lights are lit, we still might have good power if all the lights are burnt out (with at least one bad shunt).

If, as usual, we have an AC socket at the end of the string, we can just plug in a low-power AC light and see if it works. Christmas Lights Buying Guide. NOTE: The average outlet in a home has amp service. NOTE: Voltage is never more than 1V for these light sets. I guess I could have just bought a new pre-lit tree, but mine cost a pretty penny.

My prelit tree has strings of LED lights and each bulb has three wires going to it. Looking on the web there are a number of sites that describe how to repair strings wired in series that have two wires per bulb. However I cannot find any reference to strings with three wires per bulb. GE markets a series of lights called Constant On.

Repairing GE Constant On Lights. When they work, they are reasonable lights. All of our mini string lights are very reliable and stay lit if a single bulb fails.

Our incandescent mini string lights come with replacement lamps, and we carry LED testers and PODS for repairing the LED light strings. Either size is an excellent choice for those that want a.