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Part of my christmas tree lights are out6/12/2023 Without the pressing deadlines of Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is a tedious task that can be worked into a few evenings. Reinstalling the lights will extend the life of your tree. I’d plug any new lights into each other and into their own splitter. During the off-season, you might consider clipping and rewiring the tree with new light strings. You’ve described a process where you have really worked on troubleshooting and the remaining issues may be related to wiring and socket failure that happens over time. Glass lights have about 3000 hours of life and you may very well be at the end of your light string’s life span. We have been in your exact situation and feel your pain. Sorry for our late reply to your great question. You guys seem like you must know your stuff, given your specific blog name. I’ve read about 2 dozen internet articles. The tree base is still sitting out halfway through January because I’ve been trying everything I can to fix it. This year, we just dealt with dark section, but I’d really like to fix it. My light/circuit tester is not consistent with showing me exactly where the electrical current stops, so what do I do? Is there anything else I can do? I don’t really want to buy a whole new tree. I have changed both fuses in the prong end, even though neither appeared blown. I have changed out any obviously blown bulbs. I have checked all the bulbs, wiggled them to make sure none are loose, even though they are the type with the little latch that clicks the base in place, so it would be difficult for that to be the problem. The bottom section has 2 rows of branches, and the top row of the section (the end portion of the strand) is out. Unfortunately, my half-out strand is attached to a pre-lit tree. People who read this blog post also read this: See our blog about the entire string doing down for more information and troubleshooting tips. If the entire string of lights is out, the issue could be that it is on a single circuit and is due to one of the issues above or the fuse for the entire string might be out. What if the entire string of lights goes out? If this is the problem with your light string, the best solution is to begin again with a new string of lights. If all the bulbs are seated and none are smoked, more than likely there is an issue with the actually wiring of the Christmas light string.ĭamage to the wiring can be caused by age, squirrels, pulling and tugging on the light strings during take-down at the end of Season. There is an issue with the wiring harness and the copper wire is broken in the string. Purchasing new sets may be necessary if replacing bulbs don’t work for you.ģ. Note, if you’ve run way too many lights in series you may have permanently damaged your light sets. Visually check the part of the light string that is out and replace any smoked bulbs. The solution: Check the rating of the light string and don’t plug in more lights than the manufacturer specifies. This happens sometimes when the bulbs are “smoked”. The rating of the light string was exceeded and the bulbs blew out the wire at the base of each bulb that is supposed to conduct electricity. Check for any bulb that is missing or partially unseated from the socket and if you find a space or wonky bulb, replace the bulb with one of the two extra bulbs that hopefully were included with your light set or gently push the bulb back into its socket.Ģ. Don’t take out and reinsert each bulb because that’s hard on fingers and will more than likely create larger problems. The solution: Visually inspect each bulb in the part of the Christmas light string that is out. Yes, as a general rule of thumb, a small wire at the base of each glass bulb will continue to conduct electricity if the filament “burns out” but if the bulb is actually out of its socket, the lights don’t actually stay on. That’s how you can lose 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 of the string.īut don’t lights stay on if a bulb burns out? If a bulb is missing in a circuit only the bulbs in series of it will go out. For light strings that commonly have over 50 bulbs, they are constructed in 2 or more continuous circuits. A light bulb has come out of its socket or is half out of its socket and it has brought down the circuit. Incandescent Christmas tree lights (aka mini lights) are wired in series so if your lights go partially out you have one of three issues:ġ. Or their lights suddenly half go out during installation. We hear this question from folks who are puzzled that their lights worked fine last season but are half out when they pull them out of storage.
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