Ok, first I'm not sure that this is the best place to ask a question about this,
But this is the only place I know where there are smart ppl in electronics, and well I've always get many good answers to my questions in the past, so thanks for that.
Well, alright, the one thing that is related to this site, is that I'm saving allot of power to go with LED Christmas lights only, this year and last, so all my displays are so cheap in running that its about 2 dollars (CDN) I figure I'm spending on running them.
Well, you may or may not know, but LED Christmas lights are fixed, they cannot be removed and switched around like the traditional ones, so that brings me to my problem, I've got some of those spinning things and light up little figures that used to use. Besides other then just putting one string of traditional to solve that, I'd rather not do that.
So, I figured that, each light, most introduce a voltage drop as the more you put on, If say I have a set of 50, and 25 of them are dead or just weird to bypass the light part, the rest of the set becomes allot brighter,
I took apart a set, and cut out a section, leaving only 5 lights, and as soon as I connected it, it all blew; they became real bright for a sec, and then died completely.
So I figure I need to create some sort of dummy load to give the impression that there are 45 lights that are not there, so that the remaining 5 will work normally, and allow me to connect up my little tree figures, with out blowing them up
now I know this is likely AC power, on a string of Christmas lights, so I'm not sure, if you can connect up those, um forget their names, to it to create that load or not
That is what I want to know, what I'll need to pull this trick off?
If anyone can suggest or help me in this question, I'd appreciate it.
p.s. I'd think that next year, someone will create a consumer product similar to what I'm trying to do, I can see it now, but I don't want to wait