Dim Led Christmas Lights

The led dimmer problem.

Dim led christmas lights. Dec 15 2016 1. Christmas light strings have to be plugged into an outlet as a source of electricity to power the lights. Last night my wife noticed that the. Adjusting the brightness was no problem in the meantime led lighting technology has established itself and offers many advantages over the old light sources.

We have three strings of led christmas lights in series around our porch. With the led lights plugged in one way the diode position just puts the leds at full brightness but with them plugged in the other way the led lights don t go on. Just like you d never think to plug a computer directly into the way to protect it s internal circuitry think of your led lights the same way. Scroll to continue with content.

Some christmas lights can be bright but you can dim the lights on your christmas tree or in other areas of your home by plugging the light string into a dimmer device which can be purchased at lighting stores home improvement stores and many department stores. Ask question asked 8 years 11 months ago. Viewed 10k times 2. Active 8 years 11 months ago.

Led christmas lights gone dim reply to thread. On a quick side note use an outdoor rated surge protector for all of your led christmas lights. The next string which is plugged in after the problem string works normal. All the bulbs are working and are very consistent in brightness including the ones that are dimmer.

The diode causing no light requires the string to be plugged in the same way as that which gives the most flickering. Led christmas lights. Incandescent mini lights are dimmable. I bought two different strings of led lights of the same brand to replace my old lights with leds.

Suddenly you find yourself with four or five bulbs that are dimmer than the rest of the lights on the string. I have a string of led christmas lights with a problem about 1 2 of the lights are on but very dim the other second half is on normal. Old incandescent bulbs and halogen bulbs had an advantage in addition to all their disadvantages. 17 questions view all.

What can i do. Decorational lighting used around the holidays. Big multi colored c9 bulbs with dangling white icicle strands of t1 bulbs. These lamps could be easily operated with a dimmer.

The last string is bright and the others are dim. You lug out the box of christmas decorations you pull out the strings of lights and then plug them in. Discussion in leds and optoelectronics started by kmoffett dec 15 2016. How can i dim led christmas lights.

Each string has a control to change the color sequence which works normally. It happens every year. Skip to main content. Thus ends the black box discussion of led christmas lights.