On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:14:09 -0500, willshak
wrote:

On 11/29/2004 6:54 AM US(ET), Paul Giroux took fingers to keys, and
typed the following:

Art Todesco wrote in message news:Dooqd.157815$HA.23705@attbi_s01...



All this said, there is (was?) a company that builds a high voltage
pulser to break down the shunts. It was called Lightkeeper, however, I
suspect they are out of business as their web page doesn't work.


Cool. A $79.95 gadget to repair a two buck string of lights!


Americna ingenuity!


Joel





I found www.lightkeeper.biz. Neat device. eBay also has 'em, but they
look like "older" versions.

This discussion has me thinking. Perhaps one could wire a BBQ ignitor,
also a piezo device, to the string of lights and that too would send a
pulse out to the lights. However, what I don't understand and perhaps
somebody can explain, is why (following the Lightkeeper's
instructions) they make you remove one bulb from each set of lights
prior to plugging the light string into the device. I mean that way
there's no continuity to the shunt. Maybe I'm missing something.


You have to have a vacant socket in order to plug the socket into the
device. They don't want you to test the string from a good bulb socket,
so if you remove a bad bulb before unplugging the whole string from the
outlet, you won't have to try to remember which bulb was bad (it's the
vacant socket).
I don't have one of these devices, but I'm going to look for one.