When starting each section make sure that you begin with the female end on the top branches of the section and keep the male end on the bottom branches of the sections. You will be glad that you did next year when you have forgotten where you ended each strand. If that is not possible, use an orange colored zip-tie to mark the location of the plugs. Try to make it so that male and female ends will connect at the interior of the tree. So, it made more sense to jump from branch to branch, in an up-and-down direction. However, on a few sections, the branches were staggered. Then, back along the length and cross over to the next branch. On most sections, the lights needed to go from the interior towards the tip. To make things easier, I used the tree stand to hold each individual section as I wrapped the lights.
This is how I worked out the lights on my tree. (as the branches get longer, it will take more lights). From there, I increased the bulbs per branch as I moved down the sections. In other words, the top section gets a strand of 100. That makes 12 x 5 = 30 + 40 more for the top tips. The bottom of the top section had 12 branches. So, I counted the branches (the very top doesn’t have individual branches. Then, to determine how many lights that I was going to need, I decided on about 5-6 bulbs would be dispersed on the top sections of each branch. You’ll see why when you look at how I determined my light distribution in step 2. Also, if your tree comes in sections like mine, you will likely need a brand that comes in both 100 lights and 50 or 150 lights per strand. If you need five strands, make sure all five are the same brand, style, and color temp. However, regardless of the brand that you choose, the most important is to be consistent. To be precise, the lights that I used were the GE warm white in the green packaging. I have also noticed that Walmart has some GE lights* available on their website. I bought my lights at Lowe’s, but if you can’t find those, Amazon sells these warm LED lights*. But, at least they do not have that bluish tint that the regular LEDs have. Of course, a LEDs soft light is nowhere near as soft as the old incandescent bulbs. So, LED lights it is! I looked long and hard before deciding on a GE brand in soft white. Plus, LEDs will be perfect for when I get around to flocking my tree, and eventually, I will. Even with replacing the old lights with all LEDs, I would still be spending less than half the cost to replace the tree.
I guess I could have just bought a new pre-lit tree, but mine cost a pretty penny.
#One section of prelit tree not working plus
My tree was still in very good shape, but the 1300 plus lights were shot. When I unpacked the tree this year, I knew that I had a project ahead of me. Here are the ones I bought from Amazon.Pre-lit Christmas Tree Lights Repair/Replace… Use a new, sharp pair of wire cutters.You can tie up the branches you have completed to get them out of the way while you work on the branches below.Ideally you can sit in a chair for the entire project. You can either put sections together or switch out the sections you have in the stand, but I would not assemble the tree and stand on a ladder for any of this. After you have finished the top section, use your tree stand and do the other sections standing up in the tree stand. You can do your entire tree without having to stand on a ladder.
You can probably hold this one in your lap. If I have convinced you to remove your pre-lit lights, then start with the top section of your tree.I am going to do this to my larger 12 foot tree, so I’ll time myself and see how long that takes. Once I found my groove, I could probably do this 9 foot slim tree in about 6 hours or so. This doesn’t take as long as I thought it would.
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