The energy efficiency of LED is going to be an advantage to you if you have a larger display and few available outlets. We have enjoyed working with both incandescent and LED rope light and strings. Running a more permanent electrical line with properly rated conduit, grounding, and a box with GFCI outlets might be a great next step for your Christmas light project. Again, an electrician can give you the wisest counsel. We would also like to encourage you to purchase one longer extension cord that is rated for the distance you are running instead of running several extension cords in a daisy chain. (Consider hiring a master electrician to come take a quick look at your setup.) Be sure not to run any displays in series with each other to avoid exceeding the current rating of any of the light strings or rope. We can’t give electrical advice but yes, you should be able to plug your horses and sleigh each into an extension cord end connector as long as you don’t exceed the cord’s maximum current rating. If you have a question about parallel wired Christmas light bulbs and cords, head to this blog post about mixing C7/C9 incandescent and LED bulbs on the same custom cord.Īrticle originally published September 20, 2011. We also suggest that you plug your LED lights into a surge protector whether installed inside or out. In other words: Do NOT run LED and incandescent light strings plugged into each other. Since the traditional incandescent lights have a much higher current draw than LED sets, pulling all that extra current through all the bulbs will damage your LED lights by either blowing their fuses or damaging the bulbs before ruining the light string. (For more about Christmas lights wired in series vs. These light sets are manufactured in series and the same amount of current runs through all the light sets strung together.Īnd the more lights that are strung together, the more current they “pull” or require. Lights like these: Incandescent Christmas tree string lights or the LED versions. The types of lights referenced in this article are what you’d think of as Christmas tree lights. We’ll answer this question for traditional C7/C9 cords that take either LED or glass bulbs in another blog post. We are going to answer it in this post for light strings that are PRE-WIRED.
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