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Rewiring mini Christmas light sockets?

Posted by Jade Martins on Jan-31-2010

I have a 100 five way flasher light set and the last section of 20 bulbs don’t work due to the fact that the first socket of that section is completely missing with the wires exposed and with no socket. (found this set in the attic). I would normally throw the set out, but i can’t find this particular light set anymore and was wondering if its possible to simply cut out a socket from another set and rewire it in?
how would i be able to rewire the exposed wires into the socket? what do i need and how do i do it? thanks.

Hi, strip the insulation back and match wire-to-wire. This may be a matter of trail and error until you match all 5 wires to the same extension but when they are all connected the last section of 20 lights will work again as there is no break in the wires. All you need to do is wrap or twist (as long as they are connected) each wire to its corresponding wire. If it is a good set, there wires may be colour coded, but this in unlikely!




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  1. maca Said,

    yes you could or you could simply wire through the missing section this would put a small extra voltage on the other lamps but this should be ok
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  2. Zachary Said,

    Hi, strip the insulation back and match wire-to-wire. This may be a matter of trail and error until you match all 5 wires to the same extension but when they are all connected the last section of 20 lights will work again as there is no break in the wires. All you need to do is wrap or twist (as long as they are connected) each wire to its corresponding wire. If it is a good set, there wires may be colour coded, but this in unlikely!
    References :

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