LED Keeper® - LED Holiday Light Set Repair Tool

I bought a bunch of Noma lights a couple years back and when I checked them this year, I found about 5 strings were only half lit. This product was super easy to narrow down which light was bad and I just popped a replacement bulb in. Very happy I tried this product.

As we slowly switch our home Christmas lighting to LED strings, some LED based strings, after only a couple of seasons have stopped working. Sure, they are relatively cheap sets, but I thought they would last longer than a couple of seasons. Right now LED strings are more expensive then filament bulb strings, so repairing them makes sense. The LED Keeper worked great. I was able to quickly identify the failed LEDs, and fixed three out of three strings, with multiple failures in each string, in about 90 minutes. In all cases, because the strings are relatively new, the cause was a broken lead at the point where the LED leads are bent around the socket. Probably jammed in quickly by automated machines which overly stressed the pin. I am a little apprehensive about the insulation piercing mechanism the Keeper uses, but so far it is effective and reliable, and is just a pin prick. Whether it will lead to premature wire failure remains to be seen. An issue only peripherally related to the Keeper is finding replacement LEDs. Big Box stores sell packs of five, but when you figure the price, you realize you are better off getting a cheap LED string on sale and use it for replacing bulbs in other strings. If the socket type is the same all the better, if not, just be careful about not stressing the pins when you unbend and re-bend them when switching sockets.

It does exactly what its supposed to. At the end of the season I had 3 strings of lights that only had half of the bulbs working. I was ready to label the strings and try to hide the dead spots next year. It took a little while to get the hang of it, but by the last strand it only took 15 minutes to find and fix the problem. I actually had 2 bad bulbs on that strand. I cant imagine how long it would have taken without this. Now all of my lights are ready to go for next year. The clamp tester and bulb tester both work great. I didnt get a chance to try the fuse tester and the bulb remover was not the right size for my external light string.

Love this product! Saved me from throwing away my LED Christmas lights strand. I was able to locate the faulty led light bulbs and replace them. Voilà, lights are working again. Highly recommend this if you want to save money from having to buying more light sets!

Was a bit hard getting it to work consistently at first. Instructions confusing. Online videos way better. Keep trying. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes super helpful determining what light strings to keep and fix and which ones to scrap

The tool is well designed. It makes repairing led Christmas lights fun and easy. I’m glad I kept a old set of lights that I had with a bad circuit board for the spare LED’s. I replaced a bunch of them.

This product is a must have for every household that uses LED string lights! I fixed 2 strands of Christmas lights already and saved them from the trash! It has already paid for itself and its my first time using it. Love the tool to check if a bulb is burnt out.

I honestly think this was a life saver. Anyone reading reviews before purchasing this product has to know that this requires patience at first. Once you get the hang of it, troubleshooting stringed LED light failures will be a breeze. Here is how i used it for my icicle led lights. 1) Plug your light into a socket and identify a section where the lights dont work. 2) Use the clamps to identify the section. 3) Plug the light into the Repair tools socket and pick a random section between the clamps 4) I prefer to use the last led found on the icicle light as it is easy to isolate a single wire to do the testing. 5) Once you position the wire and pull the trigger observe if any lights light up. If it doesnt find another spot to test within the section. 6) If a portion of the LEDs do glow, then you move the clamps closer narrowing the section that doesnt work. Repeat steps 3-5 7) Once you are down to a single icicle and observe 2 or 3 that never lights up, you can bet one of those LEDs need replacing. Ive repaired four 70 inches long in hour replacing around 10 micro LED lights. The first one took a good 20 to 30 minutes.

I hate hate hate Xmas lights. I hate that when one bulb goes out, you have to spend ages finding the bad one. This amazing simple tool cut that process down to 20 minutes. I had to check 5 strings of 100 lights. I found bad 8 bulbs and 1 torn wire. This set had the pod replacements for the torn wire. Such a life saver. 10/10 HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

This is the ultimate spoiled American tool. Who else would need a specialized tool to fix Christmas lights? But there you have it, and I needed one of these after I bought what I thought were excellent quality outdoor Christmas lights on sale after the Big Day. I put them up, and within a few weeks they started to malfunction. This tool really does the job of isolating which light is not working. There were multiple lights malfunctioning on my light strings, and I was able to fix all of them through critical thinking and a little patience. If you are one of those arrogant people who want everything fixed for them by imported workers for next to nothing, this tool might not be for you. But if you are willing to take your time and learn how to use this tool, then its perfect. All my light strings work and are ready to go for next season. You need to center the metal point which will puncture the wire to make the electrical connection which is how the fault is diagnosed. Since Im not a Christmas/Holiday (i used this term so I dont enrage somebody) light manufacturing expert, it took me a little bit to get the swing of what was going on with the wiring, and to realize just how many of my lights had malfunctioned. So, as you can see, I am trapped in my house during this Covid 19 lock down, and have nothing better to do than to review past Amazon purchases. Next, I will give a scathing review of the toilet paper I purchased from China in March 2020, but it hasnt arrived yet as of 5-17-2020, so I will wait before I unleash my tongue and blame China for all of my problems, because blaming Obama just doesnt seem right at this point. :)