Electrical safety

Most of them are low voltage these days...

Anyway, you could live opposite this guy:

Wonder how epileptic get on around this time of year. A lot of news broadcasts warn that footage may contain flashes from cameras to warn those who suffer ,what they do around the streets at this time of year wear sunglasses?

G.Harman

I'd imagine a lot of people get away with things though. Much of the modern stuff is low voltage, but of course its only through use of leds that the cable sizes have been manageable. There was one house near here who had to remove a laser from their roof that shone straight up in the air. I guess we are quite close to Heathrow, but really a cheapo old stage laser, really?

I do miss seeing the lights though, it used to be interesting to see how creative people got. Brian

Look up the Bob Rivers song. Decorations.

Brian

The blue LED craze - especially flashing - makes it very difficult to spot emergency vehicles ...

I find it's the bright white strobes on ambulances that are a problem, swamping the indicators, so you don't know if it's trying to turn ...

Andy Burns wrote in news:f7qur2Fk1b2U1 @mid.individual.net:

Twinkling I can understand - but why woula anyone want manically flashing lights?

In my case, to p off the neighbours.

Owain

Most have long enough leads to allow the PS to be indoors?

No-one does. But the Chinese are absolutely convinced we do.

I put my transformer on an upturned bucket & then another upturned bucket on top. Topped off with a brick.

Not only that, some of them cannot remember the option (ie static) that has been selected, so that if they are on a timer they will always come back on flashing madly.

Chris

I thought they were all that way. I made my christmas lights in the 80s.

NT

That's a cunning wheeze.

Bill

The older ones had a rotary selector switch, so naturally remembered where they had been set.

The next development tended to have a pushbutton which cycled through the options, and I certainly took some back to B&Q because they could not be made to stay on "steady".

Clearly this was not universally popular, and some brands now proclaim that they have a memory, so once more can be set reliably.

Personally I hate rapid flashing, especially for external display. Indoors, I find that slow morphing gives a much better effect.

Chris

slow morphine is certainly popular in hospitals.

Which for Xmas tree lights could be impossible if the unit was buried at the back of the tree ...

The 3 pack of remote control 13A sockets we bought were to be able to switch Xmas tree lights on and off without recreating the Great Escape every evening.