Hi folks,
Discovered this morning that my string lights have frayed enough to break away from the rest of the cord. Unfortunately it broke right at a connection to a box
I don’t want to throw it away because they still work, I just need to figure out how to get them powered again.
Any thoughts? Is there a way I can manage to reconnect them here or do I need to swap out some pieces?
Ah bummer. I’m sure you can still salvage them somehow.
You’ll probably need to cut off that hard plastic, strip the wires back, and solder them back together.
Is that the end of the cable? Is there a connector or batteries or something? Best path forward might just be to get a new connector and toss that one.
The injection molded part is going to make it painful to repair. I would probably cut the injection mold with a pair of flush cutters. It will be tight spacing to solder on new connection. I would glue up the repair. Glue Website
Late reply, sorry all. The equipment the wires are seen running in to (that it’s breaking away from) is a weather sealed cylinder that has the AC prongs that plug in to the wall. Unfortunately I can’t cannabilize my other one for this part because it appears to have broken in the same place. The lights are simple LEDs, can I just solder it on to a generic wall plug, or is there intensive circuits going on in this weather sealed section?
Again, I know this is uneconomical to be doing for a $15 item, but it irks me and I’d like to keep them alive
Edit: this feels wildly over engineered for just 2W? Am I missing something?
Guess I’m rubber ducking this in real time. I think the AC adapter is still fine, if I could just find this replacement connector/head? Is that possible?
Can I just cut open the main housing and splice the wires directly? I don’t need the weather sealing
You can splice it direct. I think that is more work. I would cut the strain relief part of the connector. I would solder it and glue it with e6000
Ohhhhhhh okay i see what you mean now. Earlier you referred to some flush cutters, is that something we have in the space? I really don’t have much tooling at home
Thanks
Flush cutting pliers generally live in the electronics lab.
