How To Fix Broken Incandescent Christmas Lights | The Light Keeper Pro

I think that's a new and improved version of the one that I purchased this past winter. Looks pretty in depth.

Light keeper is a great tool! I forgot to send you our easter lights.

Great information saves from buying new lights. Thank you for sharing

I love the light keeper! In fact I own 5. They have saved my butt I don't know how many times.

This one was hard for me to listen too, that beeping ..wow ..I know it's part of maintaining lights ..

Hi Charlie, I have The, Light Keeper Pro
And, I took it, to work one day. My Staff
Said what is that? I said it's The Light Keeper
Pro, you connect the socket into it and go
Click, click, click, and the lights, come back on.
They where impressed now I'm there Christmas light repair
Man.

I used it on incandescent light strings and it worked. When i triyit on led strings it did not (shunt). Is this expected? Should i be using led fixer pro for that?

Need help on my Christmas lights! I have a string of about 50 incandescent lights. I purchased a contactless voltage tester and found that the very last bulb is not getting voltage. And when I flip the AC plug around in the socket, to flip the neutral and hot lines, the very last bulb now does not get voltage. And if I plug a second set of lights on to the end of the bad set, the other lights work so the voltage is carrying all the way through! Any ideas?

Great tool! I've one for a few years, helped me more than a few times. Lost the instructions. What does the plug on the gun do?

Thanks for the video, I just bought one for $10 the second hand store brand new.

I’ve got half a strand that works and the half closest to the outlet doesn’t work. The entire strand beeps with the power detector. The clicking doesn’t seem to fix anything.

Feel like I’m missing a troubleshooting step. Any suggestions are appreciated

Have owned the Light Keeper Pro for many years. It has saved my frustration many, many times! Highly recommend it. 😀

I have the same scenario that you show in the video. Half of my lights do not work. But when I take the string that goes through the bulb and set it in the trigger none of the lights come on. I have the light strand plugged into the LED keeper and the battery works because the light on the led keeper comes on. I am not sure of what is going wrong but I wish I could show a picture. The strand is LED.

when replacing bulbs, what voltage should be used to replace certain lengths (ie) 140 bulbs . 100 bulbs. 50 bulbs?

My entire garland after using the light keeper pro stopped working 😢 I don’t know what to do

So what do you do after you did all these method...tree was lite for 2 whole day and then a whole section went out and all the bulbs are black? Does that mean that my tree lights are completely done and a fire hazard at this point? It smell like smoke after that happened 😒

Thanks. You gave me hope! Dang lights!

haha your math was wrong both ways. $4,000 was correct - 80,000 lights divided by 100 is 800 not 8000. All good I got the point.

I bought two light keepers this year never worked,change batteries still don’t work what next

you talk to much

I have a pre -lit Christmas tree and my wife threw something at me and luckily missed me but he the tree and now the middle section of lights don't work. I pretty much checked all the bulbs by hand and didn't find anything wrong. Do you think this product will fix my tree ?

I’ve used this tool for years and it’s worked really well but recently I get a problem I can’t fix. New strands not chained are blowing brand new in two weeks and every bulb goes black. I’ve tested my strands and light passes through them to a chained strand but even when I replace everything they flicker and go out. I’ve tested my wall socket and the oscilloscope does not identify anything weird

Does it work on led lights?

I’ve had one for years but never new how to use it. Thank you.

Very good video. Thanks! I've a couple times gotten the strand of our lights that doesn't work working by jiggling them.

Since our Christmas lights are programmable, the trigger wouldn't work with them, but I could probably use the rest of the light keeper pro tool.

i think I broke mine.. just got it today and after inserting a bulb the silver metallic part inside the bulb inserted started coming out the bottom..

This is unreal. I got one and it WORKS WTF!?!?

Can't see what your doing. You need closeups

Can you do this without taking the lights off tree?

Just found one in the garbage. Cool. 😆

I’ve located the socket where the voltage stops, checked bulb and done the quick fix and still no luck. What else can I do?

Nice clear video. However I was not able to fix my issue and it is driving me nuts. I have half my string working well and the other half (closer to the outlet) not working well. Checked the fuses - both are fine. Tested all the bulbs and verified they were all working. Tried shunting but no luck. Used the LightKeeper to test current and it seems to be flowing all across (no breaks). Not sure what is going on..

I have the same tool but totally forgot about the plug in and click part. Thanks worked great

What’s the deal with incandescent bulb strands? Every year I end up replacing entire strands of lights because half the line doesn’t work. I’ve tried replacing bulbs, fuses, nothing ever works. Is there a solution to half strand issue?

I have multiple single , random strings and no “spare bulbs”! 😢. It seems every company every year changes their socket shape/size. How can I get spares?????

This POS gun doesn’t work for regular people…. Don’t buy it

I need some help please!... There is a bulb that keeps burning out every time I replace it with a new one. The rest of the bulbs stay lit though as long as I keep that burnt bulb in, what can the problem be????? Thanks in advance. Great video!

What does it mean when the bulb lights up in the tester, but doesn't light up when placed back in the string? And the entire string is lit, except for a few strays. Electricity is flowing through the non-lit bulb (the copper filament turns slightly red, but emits no light), so I don't understand why it's not lighting up, because it does in the tester. Socket looks ok. Nothing looks bent inside.

I have a multi function vintage Christmas sign and I need to replace bulbs in it. I'm not sure if I need 2.5 or 3.5 volt replacement bulbs. The sign has 144 lights and a box for the multifunction patterns but they are not strung up like a regular strand. The box has 5 wires coming out and each color light bulb gets one wire to start the circuit and the fifth wire Is connected at the end to all the neutrals I believe. Anyways a few of the lights are dim and I'm trying to figure out what the problem is by starting with light bulb replacement so I need to know if I need 2.5 or 3.5 volt bulbs. Thanks

Thanks for the breakdown! It definitely helped me find a missing bulb.

Just bought the Light Keeper Pro. Worked great on the generic strands outside. Guess I was a fool to buy a Balsam Hill tree several years ago. They must have some kind of proprietary lights because the socket sizes don't seem to fit properly in the shunt fixer and the bulbs don't fit in the bulb tester. They are incandescent. Tried the alternative method, per the instructions, with the plug end but it didn't work either. Couple partial strands out, some show power to the sockets and some don't. Master bulbs are all fine (but don't light), fuses fine. Tree is fully decorated so I guess I will have to fiddle with it after Christmas, trash it, or re-wrap it with generic light strands. Next tree I buy will have basic light strands. Live and learn.

I just got mines today my fingers are killing me it did not work for me at all im so frustrated

Love mine, but it's still a challenge on a pre-lit tree where you can't remove the lights, very difficult to trace the wires.

In my case half of it is burn lights, what should I do?

I have a partial strand of lights on my Christmas tree that won’t work. I fixed the others with the light keeper pro. The part that i can’t fix has a different kind of socket that won’t fit in the tool. It has an additional plastic piece added to the socket. It is the first light socket closest to the plug. Any ideas?

Do you buy lights that have 2 or 3 wires?…. Do you try to stick with one kind of lights? We really dislike the retina-burning LED or halogen bulbs.

How come when I replace burnt out bulbs with new ones. The new bulbs are very dim?????

I also experienced where the light keeper fixes the wrong section of lights from where I’m working, helpful but also annoying when I wanna fix the section I’m working on lol

I had to laugh when you said how many blown fuses you have dealt with. Before I was out of 5th grade I probably had a record of blowing fuses until my Dad stepped in and educated me 😂. After that I still have blown a few trying to press my luck on connecting strings, Christmas lights have definitely improved through the years (well, some have) Now my challenges are working with a house that is over 100 yrs old with some electricity to match, 2 fuse boxes and 2 breaker boxes 😬. Last year I wiped out a full Halloween display while plugging in the last set, meaning fuses, blacken bulbs and all, when I over do it, I do it well. 😂 I could feel my Dad shaking his head in Heaven 😅 if he only would have tripped me before I plugged them in.