How Do You Put Up Christmas Mini-Lights Outside Without Blowing A Fuse?
Frustrated by fuses blowing on your mini-lights? The trick is to never plug more than three strings together. Here is a work around to allow you to light up the block even if you only have two electrical outlets! You can get around this three string “limitation” by using inexpensive outdoor outlet power stakes. These are three (or more) outlets on a stake that you push into the ground. Some models have timers which can be set for a period of hours or from dawn to dusk. This is useful with Christmas lights. Assuming you have two outdoor electrical outlets, plug a power stake into each one. That gives you a total of six outlets. Plug the mini-light strings into the outlets on the power stakes. Each outlet should have a maximum of three strings plugged end to end. Six outlets accommodate a total of eighteen strings. There seems to be no problem daisy chaining power stakes, so you can plug additional power stakes into these six outlets to give you even more outlets. The key is to never plu
