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Removing fairy lights from a chain.
I can't imagine anyone's ever asked this before but I need some fairy lights with a lot of wire between the lights.
I am thinking to buy some of the plug in/bulb (as opposed to solar/LED) variety and then cutting out some of the bulbs and just twisting the wire together to create a longer string between bulbs.
Will this work? I know that if one bulb goes on a string, you used to have to replace it or the whole string wouldn't work. Sometimes we'd put some tin foil in the broken bulb socket to make the connection and this would work so I'm working on the principle that removing the bulb holder and twisting the wires together would keep the connection OK.
Does anyone know? I don't want to cut what lights I have only to find that it's not 'electrically technically' possible.
I am thinking to buy some of the plug in/bulb (as opposed to solar/LED) variety and then cutting out some of the bulbs and just twisting the wire together to create a longer string between bulbs.
Will this work? I know that if one bulb goes on a string, you used to have to replace it or the whole string wouldn't work. Sometimes we'd put some tin foil in the broken bulb socket to make the connection and this would work so I'm working on the principle that removing the bulb holder and twisting the wires together would keep the connection OK.
Does anyone know? I don't want to cut what lights I have only to find that it's not 'electrically technically' possible.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The reason that the lights stop working when one dies is that they are connected in series. Each time you remove a bulb and replace it with a straight through connection (whether wire or tinfoil) you'll be increasing the power to each of the other bulbs. Do that with a few, and the remainder will overload and burn out. Do it with a lot, and there's a real risk of the wiring overheating and catching fire.
Aye, maybe buy 2 strings, connect the end of one to the start of the next, and then you could remove every other bulb, short the holder across, and stiill have the same voltage drop across each that the bulb is deisgned for.
But I can't believe there isn't a better way. Heck you could cut between each bulb and add a length of extension in that way you'd have the same again but longer. Surely someone sells what you want though ? Or maybe buy single lamps run on battery, or something ?
But I can't believe there isn't a better way. Heck you could cut between each bulb and add a length of extension in that way you'd have the same again but longer. Surely someone sells what you want though ? Or maybe buy single lamps run on battery, or something ?
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