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  2. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    A string of electric Christmas lights, unlit, decorating the edge of a roof on a house in Keswick, Ontario, Canada; Christmas 2008. Traditional C6 bulbs were typically 15 volts, and used in series strings of eight bulbs, or multiples of 8.

  3. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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    Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree with lights in London, England. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide.

  4. Rope light - Wikipedia

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    A length of illuminated rope light. A rope light is primarily used as a decorative lighting fixture, featuring small lights linked together and encased in a PVC jacket to create a string of lights. Rope lights can be used in many applications both indoors and outdoors. [1] Used in place of neon signs, it is sometimes called soft neon.

  5. LED circuit - Wikipedia

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    Simple LED (Light Emitting Diode) circuit diagram. In electronics, an LED circuit or LED driver is an electrical circuit used to power a light-emitting diode (LED). The circuit must provide sufficient current to light the LED at the required brightness, but must limit the current to prevent damaging the LED.

  6. Christmas tree (drag racing) - Wikipedia

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    A common Christmas tree consists of a column of seven lights for each driver or lane. Each side of the column of lights is the same. At an NHRA national event, the Christmas Tree, which was first used in April 2011, from the top down, consists of a blue LED light set (top and bottom halves), then three amber bulbs, then a green bulb and a red ...

  7. Arc lamp - Wikipedia

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    An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, was the first practical electric light .

  8. Pull switch - Wikipedia

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    One type would switch to closed (alternatively open) already during the initial pull in the string. The other type would switch to closed (or open) only when releasing after a full pull. With the first type, the weight of the string and handle could accidentally switch the load intermittently on and off, when still around the initial position ...

  9. Multiway switching - Wikipedia

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    In building wiring, multiway switching is the interconnection of two or more electrical switches to control an electrical load from more than one location.A common application is in lighting, where it allows the control of lamps from multiple locations, for example in a hallway, stairwell, or large room.