Low voltage decorative light string including power supply
First Claim
1. A string of decorative lights comprisinga power supply having an input adapted for connection to a standard residential electrical power outlet, said power supply including circuitry for converting the standard residential voltage to a low-voltage and higher frequency output,a pair of conductors connected to the output of said power supply for supplying said low-voltage output to multiple decorative lights, anda plurality of lights divided into a plurality of groups of at least two lights, each of said plurality of groups of at least two lights connected to said pair of conductors along the lengths thereof, each of-said plurality of groups of said at least two lights, being connected in parallel across said conductors.
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Abstract
One or more strings of decorative lights are supplied with power by converting a standard residential electrical voltage to a low-voltage, and supplying the low-voltage to at least one pair of parallel conductors having multiple decorative lights connected to the conductors along the lengths thereof, each of the lights, or groups of the lights, being connected in parallel across the conductors. A string of decorative lights comprises a power supply having an input adapted for connection to a standard residential electrical power outlet, the power supply including circuitry for converting the standard residential voltage to a low-voltage output; a pair of conductors connected to the output of the power supply for supplying the low-voltage output to multiple decorative lights; and multiple lights connected to the conductors along the lengths thereof, each of the lights, or groups of the lights, being connected in parallel across the conductors.
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1. A string of decorative lights comprising
a power supply having an input adapted for connection to a standard residential electrical power outlet, said power supply including circuitry for converting the standard residential voltage to a low-voltage and higher frequency output, a pair of conductors connected to the output of said power supply for supplying said low-voltage output to multiple decorative lights, and a plurality of lights divided into a plurality of groups of at least two lights, each of said plurality of groups of at least two lights connected to said pair of conductors along the lengths thereof, each of-said plurality of groups of said at least two lights, being connected in parallel across said conductors.
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17. A decorative lighting system, said system comprising
a power supply having an input adapted for connection to a standard residential electrical power outlet, said power supply including circuitry for converting the standard residential voltage to a low-voltage and higher frequency output, a plurality of pairs of conductors connected to the output of said power supply for supplying said low-voltage output to multiple sets of decorative lights, and a plurality of lights connected to each pair of said conductors along the lengths thereof, said plurality of lights divided into a plurality of groups of at least two lights, each of said groups of said lights being connected in parallel across each of said pairs of conductors.
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33. A method of powering a string of decorative lights, said method comprising
converting a standard residential electrical voltage to a low-voltage and a higher frequency, and supplying said low-voltage to a pair of parallel conductors having multiple decorative lights connected to said conductors along the lengths thereof, the plurality of lights divided into groups of at least two lights, each of said groups of said lights being connected in parallel across said conductors.
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