Got a pre-lit 6 foot or 15 foot artificial Christmas tree with bad lights? Hang there. The following tips will help you change your lights without stress.
Tips for Diagnosing Bad Christmas Tree Lights
- First off, ensure to plug your tree in to a power outlet that works.
- Using a bulb tester, you may want to check each light. Remove the bulbs from their strands gently before placing them in the bulb tester. When tested, a functioning bulb will automatically turn on.
- Replace any bulb you notice is not working with your spares or purchase one at a local store around.
- It might help to carefully twist the bulbs from one side to the other if the new replacement lights don’t work.
- Check the fuse at the end of your light strand if all of the lights are not working properly. You need to lightly pry the cover of the fuse open with a screwdriver or a butter knife. And then you replace the damaged fuse that was pulled out.
- The light strands should also be checked, and you can easily do so because most light strands are labelled top to bottom according to letters or numbers. Consider, for example, that A is connected to B, which is also connected to C. There is a problem with section B, and you need to find the end plugs to correct it. Hence, you need to unplug section B, which is unlit.
- Once you have connected your new lighting strand, wind it around, and wrap it around your tree. Connect the light strand ends to strand A at the point where they meet strand B. Using this strand, you will light up your Christmas tree as if it were unlit.
- When you reach the bottom of the tree or the wall, you can plug in your new strand with the bottom end into the connection below.