How to Fix LED Christmas Lights - LED Keeper
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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I show how to fix LED holiday light sets with the LED Keeper. You can pick this up at your local hardware store. If they don't have it, they can order it for you.
Thanks for showing this. I actually tried one of those tools in the home improvement store with their own lights and it only worked about 25% of the time, so I didn't buy it. Why would a set of lights with 3 or 4 wires still not be able to stay lit with a bad bulb(LED)? You would think it would be easier than all this! I have old style sets of incandescent C7's that have only 2 wires and other than replacing a bad fuse when necessary, they just work, and you can see the bad bulb when it dies. I thought the whole idea behind 3 or 4 wire strands is that you shouldn't need to do this?
THANK YOU!!!! 👏👏👏 (I’ve bn trying to fix a half a string w/This Stupid LED keeper thing for 2DayS! 🤦♀️🤦♀️FORGET IT! I’d Rather just buy New Lights!!! OR a Non contact voltage tester! Dayyyauummnnn! 😡🤯🤬😠
Thank you for the quick rundown on how to use this thing. You helped me cut right to the chase.
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Thanks for the info. Great help. Looked at 4 different home depots for a new strand of lights to replace a non working one. No luck! Found your video and brought it back to light... Thanks again
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Good job of showing me how to fix my LED Christmas lights thank you for taking the time to show us how.
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I have a wreath with 50 LED lights on it. 2 seasons in use and some have burned out. What I did was pulled one bulb, went to walmart and looked at the bulbs in an LED 50 set. SAME shape socket. I bought the string for $3+, took some of these bulbs from string to repair my wreath and all is good. Instead of buying a pack of 5 bulbs for $6. I have plenty of spare bulbs now. fyi; these LED bulbs are 3.2 volts/.064 watts.
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So simple!! You help me every year at this time of the season! Thanks
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Watched video and went to Menards and purchased LED Keeper. Two strands fixed in less than 10 minutes. Be sure to squeeze the trigger hard enough to pierce the wires when testing.
I just bought this. It actually works very well. I used it on LED warm white icicles.
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Helps. Thank you. What a pain without it.
This was very helpful. Thank you!
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I was so pissed because mine wasn't working, the light strands would turn on and then off sporadically. Turned out one of the sockets was shorting out the two light connections inside. The wire nut worked great!
short and to the point. your review is true and very well done. thank you. you singlehandedly sold me and 2 other family members this product. why don't they compensate you? either way: thank you.
THESE LED LIGHTS ARE KRAP
CVS SELLS THESE KRAP ONES
USE ONCE AND THROW OUT
THEY DONT WORK
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I have a pre lite tree with LED bulbs, they go on and off, not blink, they may stay on for a hour or two or be off for a hour, can't find the problem...any help with this would be great
Use caution eliminating bulbs from LED sets. LEDs are voltage sensitive and whenever one is lost either by burnout or cutting it out, the voltage it was using is dispersed to the remaining LEDs. Not much of a problem for one bulb but the more that are not burning for one reason or another the brighter AND shorter the others burn and the faster and faster you will lose more bulbs, until COMPLETE failure. ALWAYS replace burnt out LEDs and I don't recommend cutting them out of series either.
Excellent point! The same is true for incandescent series light sets. I learned the hard way by having to replace every bulb in entire sections on a pre-lit tree. Now I'm vigilent when it comes to replacing burned out bulbs.
I was just going to ask about it as I suspected it's the case. The less bulbs the more 'stress' on the remainings, seems logical. Now, bypassing, works till too many die. But if I was going to take a working one from another non removable 'dead' set I guess it would be hard to make it well isolated including from the weather but how would I know if they are the same voltage? I also know U T is notorious for not replying to most questions. Actually not UT but those who post on it. So maybe i'll get an answer :)
Does this work with the mini lights (incandescent lights) too cause I have a lot of those too not just led
I have a really old set of Philips C9 LED color changing lights that never came with a remote of any kind. How do I stop them from changing from multi to white and get them to stay solid?
There seem to be various connection designs for LED Christmas lights, do you know where you can find differing designed connectors?
What about a string of lights where half the string is dim and half is fully lit? It's a brand new string and have been up for only a few days. thx
Hi, do you have this on a timer? I've heard of problems with timers, dimmers or controls not being compatible with some LED string lights.
Water has gotten into 1 or more sockets and has changed the resistance in that section. It MAY correct itself when it drys out or it may totally burn out from corrosion. Timers are fine with LEDS as long as it is and ON/OFF ONLY timer.
Thanks MrSbfan2000. Must be a Ravens fan! It's been sitting inside my shop for a while so maybe it's dried out by now. I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Bad year to be a Vikings fan...
There are not Bulbs but LED's .. A bulb (as such) has a filament .. an LED an Anode and Cathode. My experience on using LED lights (despite saying suitable for oudoors) is that water/moisture gets into the solidered connections on the LED's and they quickly corrode. Got only 2 Christmas (about 40hrs use) out of 1/ 200 (expensive) string set before 30 failed through corrosion. (not worth repairing) Unless there is a good tight waterproof seal on the connection to the LED's forget about using them outdoors (despite the makers claim)
I have three strings of outdoor LED Christmas lights that have been chewed (all three wires) by squirrels that I would like to repair. I have close to $90.00 in these lights. Can I fix these?
Thank you; I had issues with the instruction.
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look at video ..."led keeper Instructions" ....What kind of issues sound, vision or lack of education?
need help would this do uk voltage with converter
my strand of LED lights ever other one does not work.. does that mean a fuse has blown?
So what about all the piercings in the wire now?
So, does this device pierce the insulation?
+mythosmc Hi, yes it does.
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i bought 5 strings of led they say they have a 3 year warranty. one week later they all stopped working. they are crap
I purchased philips LED lights and most did not fully last two seasons. I had to replace all of my incandescent lights due to a lightning strike. Fast forward a couple years and many sets have lost half the string or the entire string is out. I purchased the light keeper pro and watched many videos on how to repair them but the device didn't help and was a further waste of money. I have not been able to be put one string back out. I tested the fuses and every light bulb and still could not restore half the string. I currently have both light keeper pro devices.
The incandescent lights were so much easier to use and about a third to half of the cost. I would not recommend philips lights to anyone.
Question, I have a pre-lit Christmas tree with LED bulbs. The bulbs can be set to all white, or multi-colour. The same bulb changes colour. So..one branch of lights works perfectly when set to white, but when I set it to multi-colour, it wont work. Any suggestions as to what the problem is and how to fix it? Weve only had the tree 3 weeks..it worked fine..all of a sudden, this! Helllp! thanks
Hi, what is the make and model?
Hi! Thanks for getting back to me. Its a GE pre-lit LED Alaskan Flocked 7.5' tree. It has 8 multi-function lights choices. It came with extra bulbs and breakers. Today. I took a new bulb..and tried every bulb on the affected branch. Finally found the culprit! Yay! What had me baffled was that all the light bulbs worked on that branch on the white selection. When I put it to multi-colour, the whole branch was out. How can a bulb work on white, but not on colour? I really appreciate your quick response! Thanks again!
Great video, very informative
+smokethisgt Thanks!
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What about the first 10 light up -- middle 10 don't light up --- and the last 10 light up What's the suppose to mean Can lights be fixed
Hello sir! Great video. I just discovered my GE G35 LED Christmas lights went in to a permanent dim. They still work, but greatly dimmed. It's a sting of 25 and they were very expensive when purchased. Do you think this device (the LED Keeper), can diagnose the problem I described? Please help!
+Chris Griffin Hi, does this set have a control to adjust the lights?
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Yes sir it does
I read a couple troubleshooting forums and there are some problems with the controls. I would give GE a call and see if they will replace it for you.
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ok thank you
Let me know what they say.
Thank you for getting to the point! I just wasted 5 minuets of my life watching someone else and still learned nothing.
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I was wondering if this works for icicle strings too, because I had no success with the LED Keeper, and I have the same one you have
Hi, it should. I would give the company a call and see if they have any tips.
I like that tool
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buddy my led light wont insert back in once I pull it..😫
It looks to me like this tester is piercing the insulation on the wires to inject power into the string. This is not a good practice. Especially for outdoor LED lights. You should never damage the wiring insulation of ANY 120 volt powered device.
First ten not working the rest of them are working wat is wrong?
3 years later and my LED lights have no removeable bulbs. I think they did that on purpose. nothing to repair can only replace.
same here....I don't know if the bulb can be replaces....it has non removeable bulbs....how did you solve the problems??
I put brand new fuses in my string of LEDs and when I test the light string, nothing illuminates...I've tested every section between bulbs. What else might be at issue?
Hi, how old is the light set. Did you try pushing in all the bulbs just to make sure they are making contact. If you pull one out, is there rust on the metal wires on the base of the led? Sometimes this will cause a string to stop working.
I have a LED prelit Christmas Tree and one small strand won't light up. I have changed all the bulbs and it still won't work. Will this tool help me out on the tree? Is it possible that that line that is out had gone bad. The tree is 3 years old, The rest of the tree works fine.
Ricky White- I would definitely try it. I had the same problem...one branch out and we only had our tree 3 weeks. I tested each bulb myself (used a new bulb) till I found the culprit! Make sure the bulbs are in tight..they "snap" in. If this hadn't worked, I would have definitely used the device in this video. Good luck!
@@darkhorse9472 flowers
Isn't worth a darn. I had two and the needle just dissapeared
I thought the days of bad bulbs were over when I decided to splurge and switched to LED......guess not!
Do NOT buy a pricey pre-lit tree from Balsam Hill as the lights go out on these as often as cheap trees and you'll get no help from Balsam Hill. I have the LED Keeper but I cannot get ANY bulbs to light up after testing numerous locations on the string. Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Christmas problems ;)