Ok, so how am I going to light these.
All the parts are from various eBay storefronts.
Very cheap.
I work with electronics both professionally and as a hobby.
I started with the following E10 socket. As most know the E10 socket is what a C6 lamp screws into.
So starting with the E10 socket below:
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I needed a way to pull the socket out of the plastic housing.
For 2 reasons.
1 to be able to spray paint the housings black.
And I needed to wire them up in parallel, not series like the vintage version of the C6 light string.
I found a pretty cool way to pull the sockets out of the houses.
I can't remember where I first saw it.
It might have even been on another of Paul's Christmas related websites.
It's made of a 3/6" x 18 pitch bolt with a wing nut and a rubber and flat washer.
You screw the bolt into the socket, then turn the wing nut till the socket pops out.
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Once the sockets are removed. They were painted with some black paint.
then soldered together in a parallel string of 8 sockets.
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a 12 Vdc power supply finished it up.
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Now to get the last 2 houses built and it should be ready to go.
Steve