LED Keeper® - LED Holiday Light Set Repair Tool

I did NOT want to spend money on this thing. But after several hours of googling and youtubing trying figure out how to diagnose and fix my half lit led christmas tree decor I came to the conclusion as every one of the articles and videos I watched...do it. The instructions werent great but I watched a video on how to use it before it arrived so I was ready to go. In less than 10 minutes I found three bad bulbs and had them replaced and had a fully functional light tree again. My only complaint is I didnt do it sooner. I shudder thinking about how many strings of led lights Ive tossed thinking they were unrepairable.

The LED Keeper has already saved me over $100 above the cost of the tool. I easily repaired 8 light strings that would have cost $17 each to replace and I still have more to fix. I bought the least expensive one I could find at about $25.

I was ready to throw out 3 Sets of LED lights where half the string didn’t work. This device worked exactly as advertised and helped me figure out the burned out bulb in each string. Once the defective bulb was replaced, the lights worked perfectly. Be sure to follow along the instructional video. This is 100% worth the investment.

I see some very critical reviews of this tool. I personally did not run into any problems mentioned. In the course of about 30 minutes I was able to repair 6 strings of led lights, saving them from the landfill. Looking forward to fixing the remaining strings I have laying around.

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.

USED TO REPAIR 6 50 STRINGS OF LIGHTS. tHE FIRST ONE I RECEIVED WAS DEFECTIVE AND THUS FRUSTRATING, HOWEVER AFTER I DETERMINED THAT THI PIERSING PIN WAS NOT SUPPLING THE VOLTAGE NEEDED TO LIGHT LIGHTS. I RETURNED THE DEFECTIVE ONE AND WAS SENT A REPLACEMENT WHICH WORKS GREAT. ONLY NEGATIVE IS ITS A BIT CLUMSY FOR AN OLD 78 YR OLD TO USE. AFTER A BIT I GOT THE HANG OF IT. LOVE IT!

I have had the Light Pro for incandescent Christmas lights for years and it works great. Its quick and easy. The LED keeper is much harder to use and when you find the problem their correction is not ideal. I watched all the videos and they made it look easy, but its not as easy as it looks. I was a general contractor for over 45 years and know my way around electricity. I bought this unit thinking it was going to be easy. It maybe for you, but it wasnt for me.

Really don’t know how to use this after watching many many videos. Idk if this works

So this thing half worked, thats why I am giving it 2 stars. Cons- I will start with the cons. I had 10 sets of net lights that had sections that didnt work. I plugged in the unit and tried the gun part to find the section that didnt work. Well, it didnt work, anywhere, at all. I tried it on multiple parts that worked and didnt work, and I got nothing. I wasnt sure if I was doing it wrong, so I watched YouTube videos, yup I was doing it right. I also tried a strand of LEDs (not net lights) that were all working and nope, still didnt work. So that was a HUGE letdown. Pros- Even though the gun didnt work, I was happy the little tool at the end to remove the lights worked great. The light tester part also worked great too. Tips- Of the 10 light sets that had sections missing, I marked those areas and removed all the non working lights one by one, and I found the bad lights and was able to replace them. When using net lights, all 10 sets had the bad bulb on the unlit strand on the left or the right. For example, if you have 4 sections missing, the bad light was either in the row on the left or on the right. While taking out each light and testing it was NOT what I had in mind, this tool somewhat helped check the bad bulbs. Would I spend $25 again for this, absolutely not. However if you have a bunch of time to waste like I did, this did eventually get the job done. Good luck!!!

So this tool helped me repair 3 long LED sets that were completely out. It would have cost me about $75 to replace the sets so I decided to try this tool instead. With it, I was able to find and replace many bad LEDs in the sets so that they worked again. It took me about an hour per set. In the end, I ended up replacing 15 bulbs total. Heres the BIG BUT if youre thinking of buying this. Do you have plenty of LEDs lying around to replace the bad ones? This does not include replacement bulbs. Remember that LEDs are NOT universal. Every set seems to use a different shaped base on its bulbs. I used an x-acto Knife to reshape the bases of the LEDs I had lying around to fit in different sets. On 2 of my other sets, I gave up because the bases were badly corroded. This kit includes 2 replacements for corroded bases so after that what are you going to do? Also, in my case, even though I got the sets working, what happens when they fail again? Im out of bulbs and once they are on the house, Im not taking them back down to troubleshoot in the winter. The bulbs are all the same age so it stands to reason that there will be plenty more failing soon. After this season, I will be buying new sets on clearance. So the decision is yours. How old are your sets? Do you have the patience to troubleshoot? Do you have lots of spare bulbs? Are you sure its just a bulb issue and not corroded sockets? The tool works. Start halfway up the set and work your way down the line. It lights up what works and easily tests individual bulbs once you remove them. It comes with a 9V battery installed and ready to go. If you have lots of bulbs out, test one at a time using the tool crimping the wire until you start finding bad ones (start at the end closest to the plug. Good luck!