ATTN: Electrical Guru's (aka...BrianG)

[JThiessen]

Ok - its time to drag out all those damn X-mas lights again. I switched over to LED's a couple years back, bought most of them from Costco. It appears that the quality is kinda low on them, as most have significant portions that don't light up anymore. (no, I didn't keep the reciept for them to take advantage of the warranty). These are the style where you cant replace the bulbs.
Is it possible to cut out the bad sections, and possible take another partial strand to make a new working one? I know led lights require a certain amount of voltage to make the color correctly - so I'd need to make sure I had the same number of lights in the strand (to keep the resistance the same, correct?).
At 15 bucks or so per strand, its not really economically feasible to do this, but it might be better than throwing them all in the landfill.....