I'm seriously going crazy. I have been trying to get my pre-lighted Christmas Tree to work all day! My husband thought it would be a great idea last year to throw away the box and just put the tree in the attic standing up. So now the directions are lost and I have NO clue what I am doing. My hands and arms are all scratched up from trying every plug combo I can think of. I'm so frustrated and ready to just throw the whole thing out. I googled for directions and I can't find any. What's the point of a pre-lighted christmas tree if you can't get the lights to work!!! Does anybody have any clue what I'm supposed to be doing? There are three pieces, the bottom, the middle and the top. Each piece has about 5-10 different plugs and I don't know how to get them all to work together.
Help!!!
Try ehow.com and youtube.com on you tube poeple tape themselves fixing things, putting things together, etc. there might be a video to help you. Good luck
ok, there are 3 parts and if all are plugged in, it should work. to make it easiest, take each part one by one. so for the top piece, gather all the wires and plug each one into the next. so if it has 5 wires, each plugs into the next. then do this for the other 2 parts. so you end up with 3 sets. one by one, try them in an outlet. they should light. usually they have the "stays lit" feature which is basically when one light breaks, the rest of the tree stays lit. if the tree doesnt have this, you would have to go to each light trying to find the broken one. in a prelit tree, that can be horrible.
now if the whole tree doesnt light up and you are sure the outlet is fine, i would be concerned. we purchased a tree after christmas one year on sale and the next year when we opened it, one strand of lights was out. my one gripe with prelit trees is if one strand is out, it looks horrible, so i cut it out and had to replace it with a regular strand. for that tree, i spent two hours searching for a broken light or something and never found the reason it didnt work. even when i took it off the tree, all the lights were fine. good luck!!!! let us know:)
I have one too. Mine said to look at the light plugs and find the red dots and they plug into the center of the tree (also has red dots. Hope this helps. Tammy S
Z.,
If I were you I would try going back to the store where you purchased it and if they can't help you then put it on e-bay and buy a real or another artificial tree.
I am big on real trees, every year on the day after Thanksgiving we go out pick out a tree and cut it down, then come home, have hot cocoa and bring the tree in to decorate it. The kids love doing it and the older ones now bring their boyfriend and girlfriends along.
Hugs,
T.
Z.,
If the store you bought it at has them this year, perhaps you could go there and ask them to just open a box and photo copy the directions for you. If they refuse to do that, buy another one, copy the directions, then return it the next day. (I'd make sure to return the directions as well so you don't torture the next consumer who buys it!) You will need to make sure it's the exact same brand and model of course.
Good Luck, and if that doesn't work, I'd color code each connection and ask hubby to sit with a notepad and mark down which color coded connections make it light up until you have them all. It will be very tedious like a science experiment but it will eventually work.
D.
Have you tried plugging in the bottom part? just to see if all of the bulbs are working? Then each part individually? I just hate to see this wonderful time of the year get destroyed for you if it is a simple bulb problem. Then check that the outlet is working. Try using a regular lamp that you know works. Good luck!
