How to fix a garland?

If on the eve of the New Year, and you do not have one light in the garland, you should not run headlong to the store to buy a new one, because you can fix it at home. In fact, the structure of the garland is not very complicated, and you can easily figure it out. First, you need to carefully check it for the cause of the breakdown, and after you find what the problem is, you can solve it. Next, we will tell you about how to repair a garland if it does not have one lamp on, contact wires come off or the mode switch does not work.

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How to find a problem place in a chain?

Consistency and methodology are important here. As the worst option - you have to check all 54 bulbs. It takes a very long time, especially for the old non-separable types of such New Year's decorations.

But you can use a faster way:

1. Divide the line into two parts, we call each of them, thereby determining the non-working.
2. We also divide it into two parts and call.
3. And so on, until you find the very part that does not work.

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Malfunction repair

Once the problematic element is found, it is time to quickly restore its functionality so that nothing obscures the holiday that is on the threshold. So, how to fix the garland - we analyze the possible problems in order.

One or more colors are off

This problem is the most time consuming to solve.

Important! If this happened to you, it means that the bulbs in this section have burned out. But for starters, it will still be useful to open the cover of the control unit, it’s also a switch, and check if nothing has fallen off.

If everything is there as it should be, most likely, your bulbs just burned out. The fact is that in a garland all the lamps are connected in series.

Important! Using knowledge from physics, we can say that if at least one lamp in a series connection fails, then in general the entire branch will not work.

So, when you find what the problem is, just change the light bulb.

If you have old Soviet jewelry, then it’s even easier to repair the garland. Take one light bulb 100% working and just screw in each cartridge under the lamp one by one, so you find out which one does not work, and replace it.

Off at all

To begin with, it is worth checking the integrity of the cord, especially if there are animals in your house who like to nibble wires. If everything is fine here, we go to the block and see if each part is well soldered to the board.

Instead of the old control unit, you can use a starter from a lamp at 127 or 220 V. For a start, it is worth checking how the LEDs are connected. If it turns out that the extreme elements of the groups are interconnected by anodes, then you will have to redo everything and connect them with cations. In addition, diodes will also have to be included in the circuit - they will be needed to pass the reverse current through the network into itself.

As you understand, this is difficult, so if you understand that this is the problem, it is better to just throw out the old one and buy a new one, it will be much easier.

Light bulbs crashed

No special problems with the repair of the garland in this case are not expected. Replace the old broken light source with a new one.

Important! If at your fingertips you could not find what to replace, then you can simply cut off the old light source and connect the wires to each other in the correct order.

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That's all, in these ways you can fix your Christmas decoration and make a pleasant New Year atmosphere at home. But it’s better to buy a new one, so that in the New Year with new things.