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Default Christmas lights and fuses

Jim Redelfs wrote:
In article
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Kurt Ullman wrote:


It is the fuse on the strand itself that is blowing.



There is a simple and CHEAP fix for those stupid, wimpy, fuse-in-the-plug
light sets: Cut off that worthless and trouble prone fused plug and REPLACE
it with a REAL (regular) plug. Problem solved. (no joke)

OK, UL-lovers and hand-wringers: Flame away... (pun intended)

No! The world is coming to an end. You
can't do that! Next, people will be
grinding down the fat prong on plugs to
defeat the useless polarization .... oh
wait,
that's a good thing ..... never mind.
Seriously, many things that have polarized
plugs really don't need them, especially
something like Christmas lights. The one
thing that using a polar plug does, is
to allow using only 1 fuse in a
fuse/plug (instead of 2).
Fusing Christmas light strings (or
stands) does protect from people doing dumb
things, but for the most part, is an
irritation and makes money for the
manufacturing
company.