Xmas is early - with LED lights

AZ Woody wrote in news:472fe686$0$10298$815e3792 @news.qwest.net:

This is due to the current for local control. If you don't want to put a small light in parallel with the string (a 7.5 watt night light is sufficient), then you might consider adding more strings of lights.

The alternative is to cut the wire that supplies the current for the local control feature. This is different from cutting the signal that enables local control. This information is available someplace on a web site, but make sure that you get the right information.

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I was going to give the other folks a bit of a ribbing for not giving _the_ site for such information but when I went there it wasn't there any longer. So I did a quick search and found his new site:

I'm going to update my web pages with the information.

Use a Socket Rocket instead...no light from LED strings

Wallplug to socket rocket to plug for the xmas lights?

Done some more testing.. A had an Appliance Link, configed to not allow local control, and a B&D firewire module... both reacted like the X10 modules - the LEDS never go out (get dim, but that's all).

I thinking now of using a 110v relay, controlled by an appliance module.

Yup, you need two adapters. Prongs to female light socket and male light bulb base to outlet. Looks ugly but they work fine for Christmas LED strings. I have cheap "after Christmas" sale clear LEDS under kitchen cabinets and a coffee table as accent lighting. Socket Rockets work well, the only problem is hiding them. Besides having no local control sensing current, they have no DIM capabilities, so work well with CFL bulbs also.