My wife bought a string of battery powered LEDs for outside decorating and they have given up the ghost. I thought I’d see if I could power them from a power pack. 3 D cells are their source of power.
The string is 20 ft. long.
What has me stumped from trying to power them is the fact that there are 3 wires.
So what wires should be hooked up to the power pack??
Thanks foe any advice.
Bob
Three lead LED’s. I just have no idea on how they are wired. Trace the wires. Generally, the center lead is the Cathode.
http://electronicsclub.info/leds.htm
Rich
How many LEDs is there in the string ? Are you sure they are LEDs and not bulbs ? How many wires coming out of the battery pack ? Are the batteries wired in series or parallel ?
Mark.
Mark,
It appears that I jumped to a conclusion as to what I have before really examining the lights.
To answer your quetions I took a closer look at what I have and embarrassed to say that it looks like I have something entirely different than what I described.
While counting the bulbs, total of 50, I discovered that there are 4 wires coming out of the battery pack and the 4 go into and out of each socket until the 3rd. bulb from the end of the string and 4 go in but only 3 come out and the next to last socket has the 3 going in and 2 coming out to the last socket.
They are no doubt Christmas tree type bulbs.
I am going to end this thread and I want to thank you and Rich for responding.
Bob
At the risk of angering the EndOfThread Gods, I’m curious if you got them working?
Multiple wires on Christmas Lights usually indicates ‘zones’ or ‘groups’ of lights. Could be failure prevention, could be some sort of fancy flash patterns. Just a thought.
Cheers!
Dave,
Your’e being put on report!!! LOL…
Cheers,
Frank
So are you, Frankie, for tattling on Dave. [(-D]
Rich
Rich,
OH,OH,I got caught againnnnnn.
Cheers,Richie,
Frankie
Dave,
You go to the head of the class.
The lights can be set to on, timer, steady, or twinkle.
Have a good day.
Bob