Blinking Christmas lights and jingling bells are the big part of the holiday season. During November and December strands of lights are seen everywhere on Christmas trees, houses, shrubs, bushes and even the occasional car! Have you ever wondered how to select best lights? In this article I will tell you the best tips to select the Christmas lights.
Two of the main concerns of most of the people are:
1. How to save energy during Christmas seasons.
2. How to install lights that serve the purpose of parallel series
Normally three strands of lights are required to decorate a tree. If we use a conventional strand of 50-5 watt bulbs, the strand consumes 250 watts! Using three strands means using 750 watts. That means initializing lot of power. Now with the introduction of miniature bulbs, this problem has been solved. A miniature bulb consumes 2.5-volts. Using these as Christmas lights will consume only half of the power that is 375 watts. Hope this tip will definitely reduce the power usage during the season.
The second concern is of connecting the strands in a parallel series. These miniature bulbs have a mechanism called shunt circuit mechanism. This mechanism works on the principle that if on of the bulb goes off even then the shunt circuit keeps the current going. So, the current keeps on passing to the rest of the strand despite of the fact that one of the bulbs goes off. By this you can solve your other problem.
Above are the two most important and simplest tips for installation of Christmas lights. These tips will help you a lot and will reduce a burden on your budget and energy consumption.
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