Can You Connect Led Christmas Lights To Regular Lights

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Can you connect led christmas lights to regular lights.

Decorating for christmas is difficult because you need to wire up strings of lights but solar christmas lights can make decorating much easier. Socket wire with separate bulbs with parallel electrical connection. This strand is much more difficult to install than a cord because it is thinner and more easily tangled. So in this instance the answer is yes you can mix the bulb styles.

Philips now has a whole range of solar powered led christmas lights available in a few different stores. It is possible however to convert regular christmas lights into solar christmas lights. In parallel wired c7 and c9 stringers you can mix incandescent and led bulbs to your heart s content beyond the electrical specifications taste and christmas light decorum are your biggest considerations when mixing bulb colors and styles. You don t need to worry about getting the wires through window frames or doors because they are powered by tiny solar panels.

Solar christmas lights are still quite new and can be pretty expensive. Just like classic incandescent christmas lights led christmas lights can fail either one light at a time or an entire string. But what about a heavier user. Let s imagine a second consumer who puts his or her lights up the day after thanksgiving leaves the lights on for 6 hours day and takes the lights down.

When it comes to traditional lights it s best not to run lights of various number of bulbs together in series but stick to running lights with similar characteristics in single runs. Led strands are often shorter than regular strands which means you ll need more extension cords and strands to hook together to complete an installation meaning more work to set up your lights. And single replacement bulbs are available for many led string light bulbs. So during the first year our light user of christmas lights will spend only 2 45 on regular bulbs compared to 11 02 in led bulbs per string of lights used.

However the wiring for your classic lights is different and unsuitable to handle leds. Only led s in a run or only traditional lights in a run. You can t use led replacement bulbs if you can find them to replace traditional mini lights on a traditional light string. We demonstrate step by step how to connect our led string lights so you can run up to 750m from one power cable.