How Do I Figure Out How Many Strings of Christmas Lights I Need?

Christmas lanterns are a big part of the festival. As November and December come, you may find strings of colorful lights everywhere-Christmas trees, houses, bushes, dwarf trees, and even occasionally cars that are passing by!

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Christmas lanterns are a big part of the festival. As November and December come, you may find strings of colorful lights everywhere-Christmas trees, houses, bushes, dwarf trees, and even occasionally cars that are passing by!
Chinese name
Christmas lights
Category
Small electronics
Function
For decoration
Related festivals
Christmas
Looking back 30 or 40 years ago, looking back at how people used to decorate houses and trees with lights, you will find that most people used small 120-volt incandescent bulbs. Each bulb is a 5 or 10 watt bulb, just like the lighting you see at night. You can also find these light strings, but they are not so common anymore for three main reasons:
They consume a lot of electricity. If you have a string of 50 5 watt bulbs, this string will consume 250 watts! Most people decorate trees with two or three light strings and 10 strings of light bulbs, so you can imagine how much power this will consume!
So the whole string will not flicker. Obviously, these bulbs have no shunt (if there are, the remaining bulbs will not blink), so when the flash bulb goes out, the remaining bulbs will go out accordingly, unless you replace the flash bulb.
More complex light bulbs have 16 function controllers, you can control the light bulbs in various interesting patterns. in
In these systems, you will usually find a control box that drives four independent mini light strings. The four light strings are staggered, not one after the other. If you disassemble the control box, you will find that its construction is very simple. It contains an integrated circuit, four transistors or triacs-one switch drives a string of lights. The integrated circuit only needs to turn on the triac to turn on one of the light strings. By properly sequencing the triacs, various lighting effects can be designed!

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