Tiny Lights - Learning The Style And Installation Of The Three Cord Strings Lights

Single string lights make it easier to decorate celebrations

, special events, and holiday season. Trying to be familiar with their unique 3-wire, 120-volt-alternating-current (VAC) assemblages can be confusing without having foreknowledge. Actually, it can be fairly simple. Here is how they are designed and assemble.

Mini string string lights manufactured today.

Some lengths of mini string lighting (from 15-to-150-feet) are offered to shoppers today, each one holding a separate number of crystal clear or colored mini-bulbs. However, present attempts to standardize the manufacture of these kind of light strings has centered on producing the 50-bulb sets that can either be used alone as one string, or can be pre-formed further into 100-to-150-bulb strings. Each completed string whatever its length has an electrical plug at each end like an extension cable. This standardization appears to be accurate both for the older 3-millimeter-diameter tube-shaped incandescent light bulbs (with their filaments covered inside the bulbs) and the newer LED types.

Presently, the newer LED strings are more luxurious than the incandescent ones, but they are more efficient than the filament types by using less electricity. But then, the processing of the shorter light strings of either kind having less than 50-bulbs is still done, and they can be found in the shops. But, they are not a significant part of the present bulk production of mini-lights.

Therefore, each full-length chain of any bulb-number will will need a male socket at one tip and a female plug at the opposite end. And also, these plugs are produced so the individual strings will be stacked (two or three of those plugged piggyback into each other at each end making the entire string longer without causing electrical failure. The male plug of each string also provides two small 3-amp buss fuses within it, one for each of its two main 120-volt electrical wires. Yet these fuses will blow if the stacked strings get too extended or if excessive wattage is drawn by them.

Mini-light-string type and assemblage.

Basically, two of the wires on any three-wire mini-light string takes the household 120-volts of electrical power from one end of the cord to the other end similar to the system any extension cord does. The so-called third wire of the string holds all of the mini-bulbs and their sockets in the succession a few inches apart. This supposed third cable supporting the bulbs is in turn connected to each of the two120-volt electrical wires in parallel.

That is, one end of this bulb wire is connected to the first of the two120-volt wires at one end of the entire string. Its other end is actually connected to the second 120-volt wire at the opposite end of the set further down the same string. For a 100-bulb string, the next set of 50-bulbs is linked to the two 120-volt wires in the same manner further down the string from the very first set, where it works alone from the first group. The completed string can be from 20-to-50-feet long, depending on the spacing between the bulbs.

Another selling point of these parallel connections is the electrical energy itself continues to move through the two wires from end post to end plug, if one or both bulb sets fall short for any reason. For this reason, when a 100-bulb light string begins to show unlit bulbs, these busted bulbs might seem to be in one or both sets. For example, one 50-bulb set could have all or maybe very few of its lights not working, while the second set could possibly show all of its bulbs lit up okay because each set operates individually from the other one. Since the power is still flowing in the latter example (several lights are still working), some of the bulbs in the failing set need to be replaced.

by: John Reid

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