How to fix or repair low voltage wires. Christmas lights, speaker cable, charger wire, headphones
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- The pet rabbit had chewed through the wire for the Christmas tree lights so in this video I show how to easily repair low voltage wires for next to no money.
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Hi, I have a slightly different problem. One of the wires is torn near the plug itself and there is not much room for me to repair the string like in the video, What would you recommend?
I really like how this video starts with you patting the rabbit. It’s perfect.
Thanks for your comment. He keeps biting every wire he encounters lol
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD I WANT TO HUG YOU!!!! My cat bit threw my Christmas lights on my pre-lit Christmas tree, and I was devastated! 😭😫 Found your video and overnighted the materials from Amazon. I was able to fix it on my own with your simple steps! Thank you so much ♥️♥️🤗
We JUST bought a new tree that was still pricey on sale. This morning discovered my mischievous kitten chewed through one of the wires in the tree. I was SO angry - thank you for this. My blood pressure is back to normal and I'm ready to get to work!
Thank you! Dog chewed our brand new Christmas lights after 1 night of them being up! You’ve saved me a lot of money and time! Thanks again.
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Same thing happen to me lol 😆
Same. I’m hoping to fix them. Great video
Thank you so much for posting this video. My cat just chewed through the lights on our Christmas tree. You saved Christmas!
Life saver. Our kitten has bitten through our lights. Was going to attempt to rewire and tape up, but wanted to make sure I was doing it right. This really helped. Thanks for posting mate. I've subscribed 👌🏻
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👍Had the same problem years ago. Wrapping cable tidy around the lead did the trick.
May you have a happy and peaceful Christmas.
pete T. Thanks for your comment and that's a great tip.
All the best for Christmas and new year to you too.
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Thank you! My smug giant rabbit munched through mine and I wanted to cry my eyes out. I was about to go and look for various bits and bobs to fix it, but I have this stuff lying around the house, amazingly. Thank you!
These rabbits always seem to go for wires.
Hope my video helped you fix your lights.
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Thank you! I just fixed my chewed through wire! It’s taken me two years, but your video did the trick.
And, I love the rabbit…💕💕🐰🐰
Thanks for this! We have a kitty that bites any wire we leave exposed - and we don’t always remember to cover them up! You’ve probably saved my hundreds - or thousands - in replacement cords/electronics!
We went to turn on our lights and realized our kitty with the oral fixation problem chewed through the wire. You saved our Christmas too!! 🤶
This tutorial will certainly help the DIY enthusiast - great stuff and happy and Christmas
Tony Davison thanks for your comment.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you.
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So glad you made this video. Our bunny did what bunnies do and I have 3 sets to fix today!
Thank you so much this video! Fixed my outdoor Christmas lights with your help. 🤩
The way that you presented it was so great for a person that has no experience with wiring. Thank you so much for your video it made sense it was easy
Thank so much for sharing this video , i have a puppy and after one night he chew the christmas lights i thought i had to bye new ones but i come over on the youtube to search and i found your video and it work i got my christmas lights working. one more time Thank you for sharing it save a lot of money
very helpful thank you! rabbits are super cute but they do chew everything!!!
This worked perfectly! My cat chewed through the wires of my tree last year, and I was nervous I was gonna be stuck replacing the tree (prelit) or that I wouldn't be able to use the lights anymore. Thanks!
Excellent video! Just bought new Christmas lights for our gate and our dog ran "thru" the cord and snapped it and this made it an easy fix!!
I, too have a rabbit and she did the same exact thing! I was about to cry! Thanks for this helpful vid!
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Thank you!! Exactly what I needed to know for might lights outdoor, where something has chewed the wire in two and I really didn't want to replace it, as it was a hassle to get wrapped around the tree.
Quick question though, my wire doesn't have any indicators to distinguish the two sides apart (like the white dots) - how do I go about that? Try and see? :D
Cheers
Wow. Thanks for the video. You saved Christmas (and £40) for us!
How do you fix the wire when it snapped off the plug you show? I love my little tree. The plug remains in the socket minus the route ☹️
Love to know this too, did u find a fix/repair?
Hi, so pleased to have found this video, this is exactly what’s happened to my solar lights in the garden. My problem is that they are not marked with dots as yours are, how do I know which wire to connect to which? Thanks
You just saved my head from exploding . My 12 week old rabbit just did the same thing 🙈Just copied your repair. Thank you so much.
Glad my video helped you out.
Those pesky rabbits 😂
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I just fixed my electrical wire after watching ur video and it works - thank u so very much
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Brilliant video - easy to follow and worked perfectly. Ours was a puppy that chewed through tho!
Glad my video helped you out and I hope the puppy didn't get in too much trouble.
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Brilliant, thanks for this, worked a treat and have happy kids again
Cheers lad. Enjoyed seeing the rabbit at the end of the video aswell.
My cat just bit through our new lights. You just saved us a lot of money cause its worked! Thanks so much 🎄
Thank you. I will give this a try today☺️
Merry Christmas 🌹
Sorry for my late reply. Hope you had a great Christmas.
And I hope my video helped you fix your lights.
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Thank you for the video, I'll be doing this when the lights come down this week (not because of a pet though, I ran over the cable with the hoover). Out of interest, would you be able to recommend a suitable junction box/connector to protect the new connections if they outside ir likely to be knocked regularly (in a porch, for example). Thank you for your help 🙂
Thank you for the video. Very interesting, but do you know if you can repair lights where the wire has been cut right next to the plug please? I didn’t realise my daughters hoover was that powerful. It sucked the wire up from several inches away and then chopped the wire when the plug couldn’t go up the pipe! She was devastated as they are her favourite lights. Thank you x
I'm having the same issue with my tree☹️right were the plug is
Just what I needed! Thank you!
Rabbit chewed my still Un removed Christmas outdoor tree light. Thanks for sharing the tip
Enjoyed the video was helpful. I have a christmas tree made of string lights but the wire came out of the plug (like the one in your video) any suggestions how to fix it. Thank you.
Worked perfectly!! Thanks!!
Thank you so much for this help. I used this video to fix outdoor lights that had been chewed by some squirrels.
Glad you found my video useful. Bloody squirrels 🐿 😂
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Any advice for the same on outdoor lights. They got caught in the door jam - Doh!. How can I make the same repair but weather proof please?
Thanks so much! This was very helpful!
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Thanks for this, worked perfectly for me and it has saved Christmas 😂
squirrels just did in my Christmas lights. I"ll try this to fix them - then spray the lights with something bitter. That's what I get for feeding apples to the little buggers. Thank you!
We get a lot of squirrels where we live but we haven't had them bite any wires but we don't feed or encourage them.
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Thank u so very much my Cat has bitten my new lights and ur video saved me from throwing out the lights. Thank you.
Glad my video helped you save your lights and I hope the cat didn't get in too much trouble.
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Hi. My outdoor lights were chewed through - I have tried the method per your video but with no success. When I plug in and leave for a while - the plug itself gets really hot - any ideas? The wire was broken and wet (as it had rained) when I found it in the morning - not sure if that has damaged it irrevocably. Any help would be appreciated - thank you!
Thank🙏🏼🙏🏼 you so so much, my bunny 🙄🐰took a bite last january, while cleaning the tree out. And a few minutes i let them lights on the floor.... 😵💫...
The lights 240 , 7 twinkle choices., are safely stuck away on the second layer tree . And behind the radiator.
Always ‼️save for bunnies ‼️normally ... and the power was off thank god. 😌
But i followed the first part , stanleyknife, split them ( but al sides where the same) just made 4 clean wires. Put them 2 by 2 ...and I DID IT !!!! ... single moms with two left hands , must use You TUBE . I even refill my water/radiator boiler now . I think i am " a talent just awakening " ... 👻
A deer chewed my outside light wire. Thanks for your detailed instructions. I am going out to repair it now. Thanks!😁
Simple and helpful - thanks for this! :)
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Nice video and tutorial 😊 this is the way I repair my sets of lights
"I'm gonna have to get rid of this little fella" sounds very sinister 🤣
Is there a replacement plug this can work for? Unfortunatly large dog also destroyed the TS-66 plug on mine. I I found gilbert vampire plugs but unsure if that will work.
Thank you, very helpful!
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Brilliant. Thanks
i have some that is broken at the base of the connector. any easy way to fix that?
Just saved me £40! Thank you 👏🏻
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH I FINALLY FIX MY LIGHTS❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you just fixed my Christmas lights 🌲😁
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I accidentally broke my lightning cable which has 7 copper wires. Do each of those 7 wires has to be connected to their responsive one on the other end? or can I twist them to together into one big wire?
Good video thanks for posting atb 👍
Rogue Prepper thanks for your comment.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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3 things i would add to this to make it better, when you cut it don't cut them same length, and secondly before you strip them add heat shrink over it so when you twist it looks neat, also as you staggered the joints there isnt much of a bulky part in one area, and thirdly soldering the joints would strengthen it. Of course not everyone has heat shrink, not every one has a soldering iron. Most people have scissors though if snips or strippers aren't at hand.
Awesome. It would be nice if there was some kind of plastic gizmo you could feed both wires into and then close it to make an electric connection.
I cut one wire accidentally and will use this method to fix it.
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Wago connectors may be what you're thinking about.
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Can a similar repair be done to the plug end of a built in pre lit lights. The plug has come away from the lead. This is only the second use of the tree and it would be such a waste of a tree :(
Hii. I wanted to ask.. is this safe? My lights got ruined too and i did this bit im afraid to plug the lights in. Is there any possibility of it causing a shirt circuit?
Yes kidder massive help all sorted 👍
Well chuffed 😂
Rat chewed Christmas tree chord. Thanks for the video!
Omg my buns did the same thing ty for this!!
Not a problem, glad my video helped you. Just wish I could find a way to stop the rabbit biting through wires and skirting boards 🙈
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Hi. What if mine has silver and copper wires?
So where is the link to buy the plug?
What if the wire was pulled from the rectangle plug thing? My kid did that on an outdoor decoration and I don't know how to fix it.
Thank you. You saved me from having to buy a whole new Christmas tree 😅
thanks
xmas tree lights 2 green wires one with a white dot which one is +
Thanks a lot it worked only busted lights left now
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This video has saved my cats from getting evicted from the living room till January...
Yeah I've banned the rabbit from the living room too.
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Nice, thanks. Some idiot cut the cable getting the tree out of a bin liner. Now some idiot is watching you video and looking for some insulating tape in the shed ;-)
What do you do if your wires dont have white dots to tell them apart?
Soldering the joints and then heatshrink over the joints creates a neater finish.
It certainly would have been a neater way and a much better way but not everyone has access to a soldering iron and a heat gun so I kept it as simple as possible for everyone to be able to mend their lights without buying specialist tools.
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Bought a big deer for front garden, had it 2 days and next doors cat has chewed wires. Nice one was going to bin it.
What if the wire snapped at the end of the plug?
What if there is nothing on the wires to tell them apart?
So long as they are low voltage lights, you can bind them together as shown then turn on briefly. If they do not light up then switch off, UNPLUG, and reverse the wires and try again and they should then work. The reason for not lighting up is due to the fact that LEDs are polarity sensitive and must be supplied with the positive feed into the anode leg of the "bulbs".
This video was very handy after my cat chewed through our wire 🙃 this is such a helpful skill to have! Thanks!
Glad my video helped you fix your lights and I hope your cat didn't get into too much trouble.
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What if one doesn't have the white dots?
Watch bunny-proofing videos. There are great tips out there to keep the bun safe and the humans happy. There’s a lot to learn with a housebunny!!
What if the wires look the same with no dots on one.
thank you! my little boy was "helping" and put the wire in the "scissor" mechanism on the window :/
Yesss, Same here! 😂🐇
Don’t suppose anyone knows how to fix the wire that it pushed rubber connector which goes into the plug same one as in the video. Mine seems to of got bent and one of the copper wires can come away from the rubber bit that pushes into the plug
Just like everyone else, you're a lifesaver!! Rabbit chewed up the cord just like you after a day of having it up, I tried slicing the wires but didn't realize they had to be separated. Saved the holiday in this household thanks sooo much!!!
I can’t do it mine isn’t like yours please help
What seems to be the problem?
Spend Time, Save Money, DIY I fixed it worked thank you
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My cat chewed my christmas Light 🙄 the plug is like that one, but instead of 2 is 3 wires
Update after 30mins : Just fixed it. Second try 😅 got the cables wrong the first time. They are all black, the 3 of them 🙄 Thank youuu for the help and the motivation ❤️❤️❤️😁
I bought a new prelit tree and cut the tag off and accidentally cut the light wire…
Is duct tape an insulation tape?
No it isn't an insulation tape.
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@@spendtimesavemoneydiy thank you very much ❤️ do you have video of how to set time of analog boiler clock and how to fix if broken (doesn’t keep the set time , doesn’t go round anymore) . Appreciate if you know and can make video
Very sorry, I don't work on boilers. I leave that to the gas safe engineers.
Thats not fixing. It just joining a couple of wires!
LOL. How is that not fixing? The lights are back on :)