Greg_S_H
Senior HTF Member
I've got a pre-lit Christmas tree with a section that's out. The best solution would be to restring it, but they did a professional job and even wrapped the greenery around the light strings, and even the connections are heavily wrapped and hard to get to. It's not a fuse, because a small portion of this section works and the tree top, which gets its power through this string, works. This section, like the other two, has its own extension cord that plugs into one of three outlets on the power strip.
I have a light fix gun. You plug it onto a bulb socket, pull the trigger, and it fixes a bad shunt that causes the lights to not light up even on a "one bulb goes bad, the rest stay lit" string. This thing works. A neighbor had an outdoor tree that only had something like six out of fifty branches working, so he put it out for bulk trash pickup. I took it, fixed it in about 20 minutes, and offered it back to him. He didn't want it.
Anyway, the gun works, and it even worked on another portion of this tree, but it's not working here. Worst of all, any bulb I pull from this bad section is dead. The light fix gun also has a bulb tester, and any random bulb from here does not light up. What would cause every single bulb to be dead in a section, but still allow power to pass through to that tree top section? Plugging in a good bulb doesn't kill the good bulb, but it won't light up in this section.
What's going on?
The tree has an option for all white lights or multi-color lights. Fortunately, the white lights all work, so its not a total loss. But, I'd like to get the multis as an option.
I have a light fix gun. You plug it onto a bulb socket, pull the trigger, and it fixes a bad shunt that causes the lights to not light up even on a "one bulb goes bad, the rest stay lit" string. This thing works. A neighbor had an outdoor tree that only had something like six out of fifty branches working, so he put it out for bulk trash pickup. I took it, fixed it in about 20 minutes, and offered it back to him. He didn't want it.
Anyway, the gun works, and it even worked on another portion of this tree, but it's not working here. Worst of all, any bulb I pull from this bad section is dead. The light fix gun also has a bulb tester, and any random bulb from here does not light up. What would cause every single bulb to be dead in a section, but still allow power to pass through to that tree top section? Plugging in a good bulb doesn't kill the good bulb, but it won't light up in this section.
What's going on?
The tree has an option for all white lights or multi-color lights. Fortunately, the white lights all work, so its not a total loss. But, I'd like to get the multis as an option.