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| Information About Lights | |
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| Power Ratings For lights | |
| Wiring Diagrams Of LightSets | |
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| About The Wiring Of Mini Lights |
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most miniature lights are wired in series, meaning that electricity flows through multiple bulbs (a series) to complete the circuit...if any one of those bulbs is missing, loose, or defective, the circuit is no longer complete; all bulbs in it will not light. This is mainly done because the small sized bulbs can not handle 120 volts of power. If each bulb was independent the set would either have to have a bulky transformer plug like many small electronic devices do. (most mini lights in the UK have transformer plug to convert their 240 volts to low voltage...and in many countries it is illegal to use 240 volt lights outdoors. Because of this, lights in the UK are much more expensive than those sold in the US,Canada,and others that use 120v) Mini sets could also be designed so that each bulb would have a resistor built in to lower the voltage. but the cost would be much higher. Many sets today have more than one series, which technically makes them a series-parallel circuit. C7 and C9 sets are wired in parallel so each bulb operates independently of the others |
| Wiring Diagrams For Mini Lights |
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Most normal 100 lightsets have 2 sections of 50 bulbs: The set will have 3 wires: * one with sockets * one common * one to supply power to the next section The image below shows the wiring of a normal 100 set.  there is usually some sort of small markings on the wires (or a slight difference in color) to tell them apart...colors were used in the image to show the different wires Green = bulb wire Red === power wire Blue == common |
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Standard 50 lightsets are basically wired the same as half of 100's like the 100 set, a 50 will have 3 wires: * one with sockets * one common * one to supply power to the next set below is a image of the wiring.  there is usually some sort of small markings on the wires (or a slight difference in color) to tell them apart...colors were used in the image to show the different wires Green = bulb wire Red === power wire Blue == common |
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Older style 50 lightsets are without the outlet on the end are slightly diffrent there will be 2 wires, and in most cases both will have sockets image below shows the wiring of a older 50 set.  there is no difference in markings (or color) on the wires of these sets Red === bulb wire |
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'Chaser' and/or 'Multi Function' lightsets are a bit different than 'standard lights' because they have multiple circuits together. The flashing is controlled by a microchip. these sets will have 5 wires: 4 with sockets (one for each channel) 1 common The image below shows the wiring for a 4-channel 140 bulb chaser set. Sets with more bulbs are wired in the same way. Some sets only have 3 channels...  there is usually some sort of small markings on the wires (or a slight difference in color) to tell them apart...colors were used in the image to show the different wires; in some cases only the common wire will be different. red ==== channel 4 yellow = channel 3 green == channel 2 cyan === channel 1 blue === common |