Easy Way To Check Christmas Lights

The easy way to recycle old christmas lights so you can make room for new ones.

Easy way to check christmas lights.

Tackle the project hands on with a homemade tool. Use a light tester to test each bulb individually. Many christmas string lights are wired in series so if one bulb bu. Connect it to the wire of the previous socket.

It combines a voltage detector bulb. The only way i know how to do what you want is to take a bulb you know burns and replace each bulb in the string with that bulb until they all glow. 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. Replace all nonfunctioning bulbs.

Get a non contact voltage detector and skip down to tracing the dead bulb. Most lights are now wired so that if one is out the rest burn. 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. You can also test the bulbs without a light tester although this process will take more time.

The store also accept lights during its annual holiday lights recycling drive so check with your local mom s. Then you attach the lights on a slide piece with clips. Now check with the multimeter. It s a strip of trim you affix to your house.

Sometimes nonfunctioning christmas light bulbs can appear to be perfectly normal so a light tester is the most efficient and reliable way to single out broken bulbs. Alternatively buy a cheaper light bulb. Begin at one end of the darkened string of christmas lights and carefully remove the first bulb. Looks like it will make hanging outdoor lights on the house really easy.

Then remove the middle bulb of the string and check it.