Christmas Lights: More Than Just a Decoration
There are a lot of ornaments used as decoration items during the Christmas season. Amongst all of these ornaments, there is one with a considerable amount of significance and relevance. It is also one every home has most of the time. That is the Christmas holiday lights.
To enjoy Christmas lights, you should understand the workings of one. You cannot enjoy the way it works if you do not have a good grasp of what might go wrong and what you should do when that happens. That is the purpose of this article. Dive in!
The Art of Decorating with Christmas Lights: Tips and Tricks
Note the following tips:
- Current flows through a closed circuit.
- When it passes over the filament, it shines brightly.
- The more the electricity or current that goes over the filament, the hotter it gets, the brighter it gets, and the quicker it burns out.
- The current stops flowing over the filament once the circuit breaks. That bulb will also stop giving light.
- When the current goes over the limit and the circuit breaks, the filament melts.
- If you want to have more than one Christmas light shining the holiday lights, you can do that through a single source of power. To do this, you either have them connected in series or parallel.
- For a series connection, the current flows from the source of power to the first light. Then it goes on that way till it passes through all the bulbs and back to the power source
- In a series connection, when a circuit breaks, all of the light goes off.
- In a parallel connection, however, every bulb works on its own. So, when the circuit of one of the incandescent bulbs gets open, others continue working.
- It is therefore advisable to connect your Christmas lights if you want to use more than one in a parallel way.