Outdoor Christmas Lights Keep Blowing Fuses

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Outdoor christmas lights keep blowing fuses. Fortunately there are some easy tips you can follow to prevent the dreaded christmas light induced blown fuse. The fuse will look like all the other christmas lights but with a painted tip. If you need more help with this problem reply with additional details type of lights size of fuses length of extension cord etc. The main reasons why your christmas lights keep blowing a fuse include using multiple strands of lights using the wrong type of lights or using damaged lights.

On tuesday we put up our christmas lights on our house they are the big c9 lights. Jump to latest follow 1 7 of 7 posts. Discussion starter 1 nov 18 2011. Today contributor lou manfredini host of house smarts is back for another edition of ask lou this.

What to do when christmas lights keep blowing the fuse by david montoya updated august 30. If you are blowing the house fuses you may have too many lights on that circuit. Whether indoors or outdoors homeowners often string together several strands of christmas lights when decorating. You can try powering 1 2 the lights from an outlet using another circuit if possible.

Using multiple strands of lights. Step 1 remove and replace the fuse in the string of lights. Joined sep 3 2010 188 posts.