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Electrical Question about christmas light strand?
I have a lighting decoration that looks/works something like this product:
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Right now it has 3.5 volt clear bulbs in it, but I want to change them to blue bulbs. I have a strand of 2.5 volt blue christmas lights. If I take all the clear 3.5 volt bulbs out and put the blue 2.5 volt ones in, will it work? It says that I should only replace the bulbs with 3.5 volt, but is it just the bulb area that requires this, or does the string require that I have 3.5 replacement bulbs? Sorry, just don't know how the electrical part works and would like to know. Thanks
Bobo is correct. They are run in series and use exactly that amount of electricity across each bulb. So if you have 3.5 volt bulb you probably have about 33 lights in a string. This adds up to about 115 volts. Now if you put 2.5 volt lights in they will work but burn brighter and burn out quickly. They would only need 80 volts to work, but you would be putting 115 volts throught them. More then they were made for. They are made for a longer string with more lights. Probably closer to 50 lights in the string.
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