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About J Cook
Expertise
General electrical wiring, including but not limited to, residential, panelboards, control wiring, low voltage wiring, Heating and A/C control wiring, single and three phase wiring.

Experience
I have been doing electrical since high school. I have been licensed by the State of North Carolina for ten years and am currently the Building Maintenance Superintendent for a municipality. I have extensive control wiring experience.

Organizations
Refrigeration Service Engineers Society.

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Electrical Wiring in the Home - christmas lights

Expert: J Cook - 12/6/2004

Question
A string of my mini christmas lights are not working. I have a bulb tester and every bulb seems to be good. So how do I test the sockets to see where the problem might be?

Answer
Hello Jeffery, this is very difficult to do. The sockets are so small it is almost impossible to get a set of meter leads into the socket without touching them together, which will cause a dead short. That is the only way to be sure a socket has power, if you can get to the metal portion of the socket to test for voltage. Thanks for asking, J

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