Mains Christmas Light Regulations

therustyone · 2014-11-27T08:38:40+00:00

I wonder, are there electical regulations applying to installing Christmas Tree lights outdoors. No problem with low voltage ones with a transformer, but the heavy duty connectable light strings run directly off the supply w ith the LED's in series, half in each polarity direction plus a diode. The se are often used close to earthed iron railings etc and easily accessible from the pavement.

Nov 27, 2014 23 Replies

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ARW 11 years ago

The cable is

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and only suitale fo 110V use with ES lights as you have no way of identifying the live

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Windmill 11 years ago

Somewhere recently I saw a plug-sized socket tester which also checked ground loop impedance in a simple go/no go way. Definitely an improvement on the gadgets which only check for correct wiring.

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ARW 11 years ago

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Andy Burns 11 years ago

The Kewtech KT107 does that, if only it were a bit cheaper ...

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