Christmas light issue - first string of lights in the series always breaks

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Christmas light issue - first string of lights in the series always breaks

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its overloaded, the first string gets the hottest the fastest and then the sockets melt or blows fuse inside the plug.

i learned you need to plug no more than 2 strings in at a time and then run another cord for more lights if needed. every time i plugged in a 3rd string the first string would fail within 2 days and often not work any more or only partially light

eventually, i reduced the area i string with lights so i no longer do the whole front of the house. i only have 2 strings i use now, and i never have issues

what i found worked best was run the cord to middle of the house so you have 2 strings on each side of the cord so there are no overheating issues from drawing too much power. for me i had ice cycle lights so i only had 2 of those 15-18ft strings on each side

Fuse may be blown in the first set but that would still be odd because I haven’t seen any incandescent light strings that say you can’t plug at least three in series. I have a 65,000 light display (almost all LED) but even my incandescent lights all have at least three back to back. If you’re talking LED, you can sometimes plug up to 30 strands in a row.

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I haven’t seen any incandescent light strings that say you can’t plug at least three in series.

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well it depends a lot on the quality, if they are the cheap walmart lights, thats what years of dealing with them has taught me what does and doesnt work.

if its the heavy duty commercial grade light strings, those dont have fuses and they have much better wiring.

im responding assuming he is using the cheap retail version lights 95% of people use

I changed out the fuses

It was blowing the fuse on the same receptacle as the fridge. I put it on another circuit and it works fine now

You prolly have too many strings on the circuit....I had that problem, had to add more extension cords.