How To Repair Icicle Lights

How to fix icicle Christmas lights. Icicle lights are harder to fix than single strings. This shows how to almost always fix a set by a clever method to check voltages and track down the problem bulb. Before attempting that I also demonstrate trying to use a non-contact AC tester, and trying to short out a defective shunt by using a piezoelectric spark.

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• Christmas lights
• how to fix icicle lights
• icicle light repair
• light keeper pro

[dwbcoan]

Great Job!! The average person does not have a chane with tree lights or icicle lights and without a mutimeter forget it! Thanks for a great video.. I happen to have both a snifer and several mutimeters and have been baffeled more than one. Not now!!! Thank You!! I'm off to fix about 15 strings I have piled up over the past few years!!! GREAT A+++

[gatorman22]

Thanks for the video, you inspired me to take the string down and inspect it indoors. With the voltmeter I was able to narrow it down to one 'icicle' and found the next to last bulb had burned up, damaging the socket. I bypassed it with a butt connector and heatshrink, now it has 299 lights.

[elpeers99]

It really bugs me to pitch outdoor lights so I don't ... now I might be able to get them to light up again... thanks,

[MrFrankthetank27]

you have a lot of patients...thanks for the info,good post :)

[bonnetrumpet76]

This is great information. Light keeper Pro doesn't work 100%. Once you get past the click you may as well not waste time and buy new sets. $22.00 can buy you peace of mind with several new sets. You can thank shoddy Chinese quality control and importers who have created endless resupply market. My time is worth more than to fix these lights. Seems to me time to diagnose costs more than the lights.

[hm0ngg1rl1]

How would you know if its broken or not. We have a whole bunch of icicle lights, and certain parts would light up and some wouldn't. It'll be one whole strand of the lights would go on, and maybe 3 or 4 pieces on the same wire would be out. How would you know.

[Gameboygenius]

4:47 Can't say no to binary search!

[Forum356]

If you could manufacture xmas lights that were simple to repair, for the non-handy man you'd be a m$llionaire..

[SpunkMonkey]

Fantastic... this was just what i needed. I went through every bulb one at a time before finding this video, but your instructions helped me narrow it down to the real culprit. Thanks!

[piyux]

Thanks, it was like a little movie but very handy. I'll try to recover some lights I got stored.