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How do I turn the top lights on?

Please help it looks retarded without the top lights on.
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You've got a blown bulb somewhere.

They're in series, or parallel, or whichever one means they all have to work to keep passing on the current.
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>>2873392
In series. If they were in parallel one going out wouldn't be a problem.
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>>2873390
Merry Xmas anon.
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>>2873530
>Merry Xmas
*Happy holidays
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>>2873390
did you plug them in?
presumably the tree came out of the box in two parts, you need to plug the lights on the top into the lights on the bottom.
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>>2873390
how dumb are you? I knew how to fix this when I was 8.
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>>2873533
Fuck off
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>>2873390
They are in pararell and your cable got cut midway through probably.
Examine the point between last light shining and first not shining.
Turn them off, mend the cut, plug back in and see if it works.
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>>2873390
>plastic tree

You NEED to kill yourself
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>>2873700
Sorry, I'm just not going to murder a tree every year for a month long display.
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>>2873390
You bought the model without the top half lit. Take it back and buy the full one. No one likes a cheapskate, anon. Especially Santa Claus.
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>>2873533
Fuck off.
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>>2874035
That's kind of like saying you don't want to murder a corn plant so it can be part of your dinner. Most Christmas trees come from farms where they're purpose-grown to be Christmas trees
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>>2874983
Sorry lol, not gonna contribute to systemized murder farming rightoid.
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>>2874983
All the Christmas trees in our are get dumped into our local lakes to make structure for crappie.
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Merry Christmas
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>>2873533
Fuck off
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>>2873390
Feel the bulb after it being on for at least 20 minutes. Does it felt warm or hot? You can feel with your cheek or nose if not sure
If warm, it is incandescent
If it's just room temp cold, it is led.

For incandescent, there is a burn out bulb among the ones that are not on, you can buy a tester, or simply go in a line and swap each bulb with another one from the working part until the working part stops working and maybe the non working part starts working. That is the bad bulb
If led, you're just fucked buy new lights and try to toss them about on it to make it look good
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Get some cardboard, a marker, and some string. Write, "Decorated by Warwick Davis" or Peter Dinklage, or whoever your favorite midget is, and hang it low on the tree.
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>>2873512
>>2873392
why would they make lights like that? I have Christmas lights where one bulb going out doesn't kill the whole thing, which means it's technologically possible to do them parallel or whatever. So why would anybody make them where one bulb going out would kill the whole thing? And how do you even find the bad bulb? Do you just have to go through one-by-one and replace each bulb with a new one until it works?
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>>2876229
Series connection requires half as much cable as parallel.
Series bulb failure kills the whole chain until bulb is replaced, it breaks the circuit.
Parallel bulb failure kills only that bulb, the rest continues shining.
Parallel cable failure causes OP image. Remaining lights should be brighter too, because current that was meant for entire chain now only goes to a part of it. Technically the same thing happens if single bulb is out, but its too little difference to notice.
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>>2876229
Also
>lights no work
>go buy new ones
>someone profits (not you)
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>>2873607
This. Op didn't read the manual.
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>>2873533
Fuck off.
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>>2873533
Fuck off.
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Merry Christmas everyone
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I bet the jews did this

>>2873533
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Happy Holidays everyone
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>>2873390
>it looks retarded
Yes, you're right.
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>>2879003
Fuck on
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>>2879003
Merry Christmas*

Also if your extension cords aren’t getting warm, you don’t have enough lights on your house.
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>>2879003
Happy Festivus!
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>>2873390
Remove the part that doesn't work.
Fold the remaining branches to form a cone.
Enjoy your happy little tree.
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Why do people mind happy holidays so much? It's just more inclusive.
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>>2873533
Verpiss dich
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>>2873390
do you disassemble the tree and then assemble it? if so make sure the copper connections between the tree segments are fully connected.
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Merry Christmas
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>>2873390
Just cut the top off.
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>>2880089
Thats just it, its more inclusive meaning its more vague. Instead of telling people to have a merry christmas like tradition which is the singular only fucking reason to celebrate yule, you tell then to have happy motherfucking holidays? What holidays? Easter? Midsummer? Independece day? Hallows eve? No, merey christmas and a happy fuck you to the hook noses, plebbit atheists and mudslimes.
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>>2876197
This is the correct answer. I hope you took this advice.
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>The special theme still works for this thread

blessed
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>>2883033
Based.
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>>2880089
its for the kikes as they do Hanukkah this time of year.
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>>2873533
kek
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>>2883033
Christmas isn't until the 7th tovarish
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>>2885655
Merry Christmas
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>>2873700
Kek
>Killing trees every year for the vibes
Maybe more people would appreciate it if you stopped breathing than him lmao



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