Best Way To Troubleshoot Christmas Lights

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Best way to troubleshoot christmas lights.

The same goes for bad fuses bad light sockets or even bad wires. Replacing a blown fuse. How to fix christmas lights method 1 of 4. Most of these tools include.

Replace any blown christmas light fuses. If not you must remove the new bulb plug in the original bulb and continue to the second socket. The job is easier with a christmas light bulb tester an inexpensive little tool that you can buy online or from many hardware stores. If the strand lights great you have solved the problem.

Buy a christmas light repair tool. If a bulb is burnt out fixing it means replacement. Buy the led keeper. Some christmas light strings have more than one fuse in which case they ll be next to each other.

First slide back the plastic covering on the plug to check the christmas light fuse. Check out our recommendations for the best extension cords for outdoor christmas lights displays. The best option is to use either an electrician s multimeter or a tool specifically designed for repairing christmas lights such as the lightkeeper pro. It combines a voltage detector bulb.

Try this if the entire string goes out. A blown fuse will turn the entire string. In older lights strings though a single dead bulb may cause the entire string to go dark. The best way to save lights for another year seems to be toput each string into a separate plastic zip bag so they willnot get tangled or dusty.

Step 2 locate the two wires on the bottom of the bulb and touch a probe to each wire ensuring that the probes do not touch each other or more than one wire. Finding the dead bulb storebought tools. Here it can be quite time consuming to replace individual bulbs until you find the culprit causing the problem.