The Christmas Tree Light Tester And The Festive Season
With the use of the Christmas light tester, you will notice that in no time you will have the lights on the Christmas tree burning. Seen that the Christmas tree lights are wired in a series, this means that each light has to be working in order for the whole series to work. Once a light is burnt out, this means that the filament has evaporated. The connections is broken down and the whole series is then dark. This is where the use of the Christmas tree light tester is used to make your life so much easier. You will notice that the newer lights has a shunt, this is used that when one bulb does fuse, all the lights will be lit. If however the shunts are in proper working order, you will be able to spot the defective bulb with no hassle. The use of the Christmas light tester is something that everyone that decorates their home for the festive season should have.
When you make use of the Christmas light bulb tester, the one thing that you will notice is the way it operates. It has a hum-tracer and this works by the detection of electromagnetic vibrations that is generated by means of the electrical current that flows through the series. What you do is start at the plug, and then work your way up the series of lights. If you are using the computer controlled Christmas lights you will also be able to make this detection. The LED light on the Capricorn unit stays lit all the time, up until you reach a hum in the series. There are three strands of wires; one is the AC current, another the cold wire and then the third is the wire that is for the bulbs. The bulb wire is the one that needs to be tested; you are able to do this by separating the wires by puling them apart.
Once you notice that there is only one bad bulb in the series, you might find that there is no hum to pick up on, there might also be a hum at the adjacent bulb and one is not picked up with the defective bulb. What this means is that one of the two wires will pick up no hum. If however, you do pick up that there is more than one bulb wire that has no hum, you will then be dealing with more than one defective bulb. In this case the Christmas light tester will not be able to pick up the defective bulb as there is no AC current that is running through the series.
You are able to use the Christmas light tester with just about any set of Christmas lights, this includes the Christmas mini lights. You would then be able to create some of the most outrageous Christmas light displays in the neighborhood and by using the Capricorn Christmas light bulb tester you will then be able to repair the lights that are defective. It is better that you repair this straight away in order to get your lights on and ready for the festive season.
