UGH *(&*^&* Christmas lights!!!

[NewJersey]

We decorated yesterday and I took care of the outside decorations. Every year half of them burn out even though we just buy new ones each year. Last night I get home from dinner in the city and what do you know...half of the light went out. So today will be spent fixing the lights I put up yesterday.

Really puts you in the christmas spirit!!

I have the patience of a mule (does that make sense?) so these may be ripped down if they don't start working.

 

[Carl]

I hate those series strung lights, and that is just about the only kind you can get now.

 

[eclectics]

One thing I learned is that you can't just plug one string into another and have them all on one extension cord. I was told that's why mine kept blowing out. You can only have a maximum of 3 lines per power cord. Any more needs a separate extension cord and outlet.

 

[NewJersey]

One thing I learned is that you can't just plug one string into another and have them all on one extension cord. I was told that's why mine kept blowing out. You can only have a maximum of 3 lines per power cord. Any more needs a separate extension cord and outlet.

Aha! I'm going out now to see what I can do.

 

[summerrluvv]

One thing I learned is that you can't just plug one string into another and have them all on one extension cord. I was told that's why mine kept blowing out. You can only have a maximum of 3 lines per power cord. Any more needs a separate extension cord and outlet.

I have been plugging all my lights in together and hooking them up to one extension cord and one outlet and have never had a problem in the 7 or so years I've been doing it. I have quite a bit of lights, light up things, etc. too. I only have one outlet in my townhouse near the door so that's what they all get plugged into.

I do buy new lights every year because I don't have the patience to wrap them up neatly so they aren't tangled the next year. I just pull them off the bushes and put them in the dumpster.

 

[eclectics]

I have been plugging all my lights in together and hooking them up to one extension cord and one outlet and have never had a problem in the 7 or so years I've been doing it. I have quite a bit of lights, light up things, etc. too. I only have one outlet in my townhouse near the door so that's what they all get plugged into.

I do buy new lights every year because I don't have the patience to wrap them up neatly so they aren't tangled the next year. I just pull them off the bushes and put them in the dumpster.

I'm just relaying what I was told by an electrician friend of mine. At least one string would always go out on me (usually smack in the middle of a bush ) and he told me that was the reason.