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Once the Untested bowl is empty, put new bulbs into the empty bases found in the Failed bowl. Repeat the above testing process for these bulbs, too. If they were scavenged, we don't know, we have to test them to see. We can take this new knowledge and create a scheme to find and replace all of the bad bulbs. This could be because of a bad connection to the power supply. Re insert the plug into the socket and turn the power on again.
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Step 3: Think, and Chunkify!
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Drop the dead bulb in the trash NOW, and put the base into the Failed bowl. Unlike regular house lights, there's a little extra gizmo inside each of these bulbs. The shunt is a wire with HIGH resistance. When the bulb is new, all of the electricity passes down the path of LEAST resistance, which is the main filament, and we get that nice warm light. The shunt does not pass any electricity.
The -very- first thing to do is to take your string of lights, and stretch it out on the floor or handy table. Here I am using a table in the Hub area of TechShop Pittsburgh. The string of lights is plugged in at the top left corner of the photo, and loops around counterclockwise. The end is at top right in this photo. Every year you take the box of holiday lights off the shelf, plug them in, and only half of them work. Don't pitch 'em, you can FIX them, and it's pretty simple, actually!
Step 1: SECRET TRICKERY #1 - Bulbs Are Wired in Series, and in Groups
I bet your new ones have a slightly higher resistance. The first thing, though, is to mark the boundaries between "chunks". I use colored masking tape for this - you'll see yellow tape in the photo. You could use yarn, or a piece of ribbon, or anything at all. We simply want to break the big project down into smaller sections. All of those bulbs are still "holding hands", and electrical current passes all the way from the left end of the chunk to the right end.
You can put some different colored tape tape on the STS socket, or a piece of ribbon, or nothing at all. I just took care to keep the STS centered on the yellow envelope that you see in the photo. You'll notice in the photo above that SOME of the lamps to the left of the yellow tape are OK, and some are dark. ALL of the bulbs to the right of the tape are dark.
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If just that one is acting that way, I'd mark it with some tape for future reference, and just live with it. Picked them up this year and multiple sections about 2 to 3 foot have just stopped. When you take out the dead singletons, be sure to put them immediately into the "Untested" bowl.
Do you think they’re just bad quality? Can the LED’s be tested/repaired the same as you describe here? I’m frustrated and not sure where to start. This is the critter that turned the whole chunk dark. As before, pull the bulb out of the socket, and remove the dead bulb from its base.
Sometimes the shunt-magic does not "turn on". This breaks the circuit in that chunk, and all of the lights in that chunk go dark. 2.Turn off bluetooth functionality on your phone, and turn back on it again, Try recconnect the App with device again. Having any trouble with setting up your products, read through these handy trouble shooting questions. If you cant find the answer you are looking for feel free to contact us. OK, now you have some bulbs that you KNOW are working properly.
(The shunt does not get hot enough to glow.) When the shunt works properly, every other bulb in that Chunk should stay ON. On a known good bulb , what's going wrong if the light does not work but and the shunt works -- a specific socket has this problem? There is no apparent electrical device inside the socket and enough volts to drive other lights.
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If a fuse is burned out, that set will not light AT ALL. If the fuse is loose or rusty, taking it out and reseating it might turn things on again. Amperage is about the amount of power drawn by a load, such as an individual lamp, or the whole string of lamps. It's not something that can be MEASURED at an individual socket. Hence the rating for the several lamps you see advertised at 612Vermont.
We all are GREATLY interested in hearing how the 100mA bulbs affect the situation! I'm going to make an adjustment to the Instructable, pointing to 612Vermont. Actually CACKLED when that chunk lit up!!!.
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