musicman 0 Posted November 12, 2012 Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 (edited) Put up the mega tree friday and everything was working. we hooked up the lights today to the boxes and 1 set will not light at all. We plugged them into power first so I know which set is which channel and they never worked. I was wondering what could possibly cause this. I think we have a pole long enough to take the set down and look at it, but I'm ot sure why it would not work now and it worked great when we set it up. I'm HOPING we can find some critter decided to much on the wire a little and it's an easy fix like that, but if not what else could cause an entire set to not work all of a sudden? Biggest problem is I have no spare sets, so I'm really hoping we can fix this easily, otherwise not sure what I'll do. Thanks! Edited November 12, 2012 by musicman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darlene Pino 13 Posted November 12, 2012 Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 It could be caused by a defective connection plug from one strant to the other. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
musicman 0 Posted November 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 I guess I wasn't quite clear. There is only 1 strand per channel. so it just plugs into the box. So it can't be a plug from 1 to another strand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hotrod1965 44 Posted November 12, 2012 Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 did you check the fuse? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wallleyes 11 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Could be as simple as the fuse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
musicman 0 Posted November 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Rained a ton here today, so I wasn't able to get to it. Hoping it's a fuse or squirrels getting at the wire. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hotrod1965 44 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Rained a ton here today, so I wasn't able to get to it. Hoping it's a fuse or squirrels getting at the wire. I would hope more for a fuse than the squirrels! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
musicman 0 Posted November 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Ended up that the wire came out of the socket. Taped the wire back in so it works for now. If the problem happens again, then can you cut out the bade socket or because LED's are different then incans can you not do that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Titanium48 0 Posted November 17, 2012 Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 Cutting out a LED and splicing the set back together will increase the current for the remaining LEDs and could shorten their life (this is true of incandescent minis as well). However, I have put about 1000 hours on a string after I cut out a defective LED and it still works fine, with no detectable loss of brightness. YMMV Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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