Home & Garden Xmas Lights

[Knee Cow]

Does anyone know the risks of lighting up the house this year with Xmas lights?

I understand it will make the power bill shoot up but what I was really wanting to know is what can I do to avoid any blackouts or power overloads to my house?

I have no knowledge of how the whole electricity thing works, but I am just a guy with a kid who loves xmas lights so I was hoping to wow her this xmas.

Any ideas?

 

[The Big Sticks]

How many lights are you planning on using?

My family tends to use a fair amount of them but it has never caused any blackouts or power shortages.

 

[Shell]

Knock yourself out Clark.

 

[Knee Cow]

Maybe not to that extent shell but I am looking to make the house stand out a little.

Not going for just your usual fairy lights but probably a good 7 - 10 things plugged in at one time.

 

[King Elvis]

Shell, for that post alone, I rate you.

 

[The Big Sticks]

Not going for just your usual fairy lights but probably a good 7 - 10 things plugged in at one time.

Is that all? I doubt it would do any damage.

Just don't plug them all into the one power point and you should be right

 

[Knee Cow]

What about Power boards into the one power point?
Extension cords?

Oh so many variances.

 

[Shell]

What about Power boards into the one power point?
Extension cords?

Oh so many variances.

Just think, "what would Clark do?".



And then yeah I would probably do the opposite.

Have fun, are you doing just lights, or you going the whole she-bang- the santa and all that crap...

 

[rofltown]

As an electrition i can't believe the government hasn't imposed any restrictions on this yet.....

Electrons move in waves you see as people tend to set up the lights in a parallel circuit this can create problems.
The electrons 'knock' each other out of allignment when overloaded in environments such as these this creates a rapid release of enegery which can potentially be deadly.

It's just a massive snowball effect.
Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission

 

[The Big Sticks]

As an electrition i can't believe the government hasn't imposed any restrictions on this yet.....

Electrons move in waves you see as people tend to set up the lights in a parallel circuit this can create problems.
The electrons 'knock' each other out of allignment when overloaded in environments such as these this creates a rapid release of enegery which can potentially be deadly.

It's just a massive snowball effect.
Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission

How would you go about combating that problem then?

 

[carltonblue]

I can think of other ways to wow little girls.*

*No pedo bear*

 

[d0gs]

I've found just make sure you don't load up any power boards or sockets and you will not have a problem at all. If you put heaps into the one socket that's when you get dramas. It's a lot easier to have them on a timer so it saves you going around in the night time and switching them off, and will save money if you forget!

 

[Caesar]

I've found just make sure you don't load up any power boards or sockets and you will not have a problem at all. If you put heaps into the one socket that's when you get dramas. It's a lot easier to have them on a timer so it saves you going around in the night time and switching them off, and will save money if you forget!

This. Also, avoid buying really crappy lights that are all on one circuit, because if one bulb goes out you have to find it in order to get the string to work.

 

[Knee Cow]

Awesome guys. That is all good advice.
Gonna be looking at doing the lights along with some of those inflatable thingies which the little one picked out the other day at the shops.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

As an electrition

a what???

 

[azreal]

a what???

E`lec`tri´tion
n. 1. (Physiol.) The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects.