> Maybe I should tell him to leave them turned on!
> (Or change to a string of neons operating at 2kV)
> RP

There's LEDs. If you like fiddly soldering and heat-shrinking

You could fuse the string but that wouldn't protect much against
personal shock, and I don't know if an RCD would pass the
switching very well. And there's always buying sensibly, ie not
from, well, you can imagine where they're made and who sells
them........ There's cheap, and then there's cheap and nasty

A string of parallel bulbs would be better, and then you could run
it from 6V. I don't particularly like series arrangements.

I remember dad, always slightly the worse for wear after several
Xmas tipples, doing the annual tradition of trying to find which bulb
had blown using some very un-Christmassy language. I'm surprised
Santa didn't come back and nuke us

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