Christmas lights are a big part of the holiday season. As November and December roll around, you might see strands of lights everywhere

1. How to make Self Charging Christmas Lights
Information Shared By: www.nyhandymannyc.com

2. History of Christmas Lights
Christmas lighting are lighting used for design around Christmas.
The custom goes back to the use of candle lights to beautify the
Xmas trees in upper-class homes in 18th-century Germany. Xmas
trees displayed publicly and lighted with power lighting became
popular in the early Last millennium. By the mid-20th millennium,
it became traditional to display strings of electrical powered
lighting as along streets and on buildings Holiday decorations
separated from the Xmas tree itself.

3. Lets Start with the Process…

4. Material Required:
It is Important that when you purchase lights they need to be:
• Led lights not incandescent!
• Battery or solar powered (mine were solar powered and the sun charged
a nickel-cadmium battery)

5. Modify Lights
Cut off string of lights and save. If you want to save the solar charger part
you can, I used the solar part for parts.

6. Then Solder Plugs And Jacks
Then strip wires from light string and solder to jack, you can use any dc
jack as long as you have a male and a female to go to gather. As you can see
in the picture I soldered the LEDs to the jack. In the next step you will see
what the other two wires connected to the jack are for.

7. Connect Plug To Lights
The other wire to the small jack goes to this jack.

8. Connect Rechargeable Battery Pack
Then install 3 rechargeable battery's into the holder and notice the
large jack on the side of the holder, that is where the male jack
going to the string will plug in.

9. Make And Connect USB Cable
The USB cable I used has a USB plug on 1 end and a small male plug
on the other end.

10. Connect USB Cable
Now connect the USB cable to a phone charger or any USB port that can
supply power that can supply at least 700 mA. Then connect the other end
to the small jack on the led light string. Then plug in the USB cable.

11. For more help on this DIY, Please Visit:
www.nyhandymannyc.com