Hi,How come you can't add miniChristmas lights to a string of Led Christmas lights?Please let me know why...

Answer 1

LEDs are light emitting diodes and require different voltage than the regular light,,the voltage required for a regular light would cause the LEDs to blow,,,

Answer 2

You can't add mini lights to LED lights because the amount of power they require is different. I found a string of LED Christmas lights that was 24' long and required .03 Amps. I found a shorter string (18') of mini Christmas lights and it required 2.55 Amps.

Even without any electrical knowledge, you can see that these numbers are very different.

The gauge of the wire is directly related to the amount of electrical current that may pass through it without overheating. LEDs don't use that much power so they don't have sufficient gauge (size) to accommodate the amount of electricity that mini lights require.

I haven't done this myself so I don't know what would happen, but I guess that it would be one of two things:

1) There won't be enough current passing through the end of the LED string (.03 Amps) to light up the minis that are attached to it., or:

2) The minis would require so much power that the wires in the LED string would overheat and melt the insulation if not outright start a fire.

In getting into the spirit of Christmas, many people plug in too many lights to too few fixtures. The result is that wires overheat and burn down the house. That would be the second scenario I wrote about and think that this is the most likely.

Sometimes it's better to ask why than to try. This will give you something to be thankful for when you have your Thanksgiving dinner. You can think about Christmas after that.

Answer 3

once a light goes out and you try to replace it's connection has now been interrupted, and by a string, that disturbed, they way they have been strung. the breaker has been comprised.