buffalobill wrote:
pretest them at home. somehow get them on dimmers so the replacing of
all the burnouts won't make you crazy: you just dim them a bit from
full. and protect them from theft.

gus wrote:

We are putting light bulbs on a large outside tree in a city park. We
have six 100 foot strings of 100 C-9 lights. We have two 20 amp GFI
circuits available. I plan to put 300 lights on each circuit. My math
shows 2300 watts available and C-9 bulbs use 7 watts. This comes to
2100 watts. I will use 12 guage extension cords. The light strings
and bulbs are commercial grade. This all looks good on paper, but I am
worried because there is not much room for real world error. Does
anybody have experience with this many lights? Wasn't there a movie
about a guy causing a large scale blackout when he threw the switch on
his house decorations? I don't want to be that guy. Any help you can
give me would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gus


Hmmm,
As of this year I switched to LED 100%. Older bulbs are all retired.
Nicer sparkling colors and WAY, WAY less energy consumption.
When I used bulb I used flip-flop circuit to make lights
scintillate(looks nicer) and lessen the power usage.