Are your 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 again? Is the 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞 not the problem? There are many videos on KZitem and articles on the internet talking about the Christmas light fuse replacement. The issue with this is that rarely is the Christmas light fuse the problem from my personal experience! Since I was a little kid, I remember having to fix the Christmas lights every holiday season as we put up our Christmas tree, and not once, I mean not once, did we ever replaced the fuse. 99.9% of the time was a blown bulb or a defective flasher. Back in the day, the way we repaired our Christmas lights was by getting a bulb we knew was working and test one bulb at the time. My brother will start on one end. I will start on the other until we found the dead bulb.
Today, 𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 are taking over, and with it came a lot of claims. Many of which I find to be misleading, and in some cases, false. While LED offers longer life, given the number of hours their incandescent counterparts are used, there is no reason while they wouldn't give you many years of service. The biggest issue I have with LED Christmas lights is their failure rate. They fail so often that several companies have developed tools to diagnose them and try to fix them. One of the most popular tools for fixing LED Christmas lights is the $39.99 LED Light Keeper, or as it is called "The Complete Tool For Fixing Your LED Christmas Lights." Yes, you thought you were saving money when you purchase those LED Christmas lights. That fact is, if they fail, a $5 non-contact voltage tester won't be able to help you! This is what I experienced in a recent visit to a friend's house. I was surprised to find out that he had paid $25.99 for a Christmas light repair tool at Ace Hardware called the (LightKeeper Pro Battery Red Light Repair Tool). Not only that, but there is an even more expensive one he also purchase for fixing LED Christmas lights. He said that the Christmas light replacement fuse was not the problem, so he had no choice but to buy the tool or throw away the 300 light string he had purchase the last holiday season at Lowe's.
I am no MacGyver, but I learned years ago how to fix the Christmas lights using a 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. It is a simple procedure that takes less than 5 minutes, and anyone can do it! While the LightKeeper Pro Battery Red Light Repair Tool at Ace Hardware is only suitable for checking your Christmas light fuse, bulbs, and wiring. A non-contact voltage tester has many uses around the house. Even if you are not into DIY projects and or working with electricity, every homeowner should have some essential, necessary tools at their disposal. That being a hammer, a flat screwdriver, a Phillips screwdriver, a pair of pliers, and a non-contact voltage tester. If you are not into doing electrical work, a simple unit will do. You'll be able to find a competent model at places like Harbor Freight for like $3.99 or big box store like Lowes' and Home Depot for like $5.99
𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞
𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 using a non-contact voltage tester is quite simple. Unlike the LightKeeper Pro, you don't have to take the bulb out of the sucket. All you need to touch the wire to find out if there is powered there or not! As explained in the video, Christmas light strings are not wired in parallel like most multi-bulb lamps around the house. For multiple reasons, including safety, temperature generation, and power consumption, they are wired in series. That is a wiring method where power (positive) goes into one bulb, and the negative from that bulb gets connected to the positive of the next bulb and so on. That allows for the use of very low voltage bulbs, as low as 2.5 volts. The issue is that because of the way they are wired, if one bulb dies, the entire string does not light up! So what you need to do is spread it out. Start with the first bulb. Using your fingers, separate the return wire (that is, the one NOT connect to the bulb) from the bulb's socket. With your non-contact voltage tester, test the incoming and outgoing wires on the sucket. Since you are probably dealing with a Christmas lights string of 100+ lights, it makes no sense to test every bulb. I recommend you test every ten bulbs or so! The non-contact voltage tester should make a beeping sound at both the incoming and outgoing wires. Once you find a place where the non-contact voltage tester is detecting an interruption (no beep), work yourself backward until you can isolate the blown bulb. A blown bulb will be identified by having power coming into it but not power leaving!
My Name is JC, and this is the Cuban Redneck DIY Channel! Thank you for stopping by, and don't forget to check our website CubanRedneck.Com for updates made after this video was published!
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