cutting light strings

[buldog198]

hi,
i would like to know if it is possible to cut led light strings. Not to cut them in the middle but mabey only 10 lights off. After cutting them I would like to add them to another string that is just a little to short; like 3 bulbs.


thanks

[chilloutdocdoc]

Cutting LED strings requires re-wiring and re-calculating resistor values...

It's a lot of work but possibly do-able

[ukewarrior]

The only easy LED cut is with 50 and perhaps larger strings.

If you look at 50ct, you will see it's really two 25's that are spliced together in the middle. In the middle you will find the only section that has two wires in it. You can cut it there and do nothing else to the string if you want.

However, as noted before, moving just a few bulbs is next to impossible. It will require you to see what resistors are already in the string and redoing them with a new value.