Mad Christmas Tree!!!!

[greigym]

Hi all,

This is a very weird question but its driving me mad and when it comes to this kind of thing, im not that knowledgable!! Basically I bought a fibre Optic Xmas tree off the net and got it delivered the other day. I have plugged it in and and it works great....but...there is a seperate very small wire that connects and powers the branch end lights. When connected, the end lights go mad and too much of it will def bring on a migraine!! Ive had to pull the wire out of the connection permenantly to stop the full on rave I get when plugged in.

I was wondering whether there was something simple I could wire into the curcuit that would control the lights or at the very least calm them or dim them so they are not soo imposing!

Thanks

 

[333rocky333]

I thought it was just a tube that the light shone through.

 

[greigym]

It looks like the input is split. The Fibre Optic part consists of a normal halogen bulb that shines onto a colour wheel that revolves and blasts the different colours down the optics. The branch ends only light up when the small wire is plugged into the base unit and it is this part that I want to somehow alter to control the branch end lights if poss...

 

[ChrisJ78]

Shouldn't there be some kind of timing controller with the tree? Sure I've seen most fibre optic trees with those attached.

 

[greigym]

You would have hoped! I presumed it had one but obviously not!!! I wondered as most Xmas type lights have a function/ control box whether I could buy one separately and just wire it in somehow to either dimm the lights so they arent so bright or preferentially control the rate at which they flash as they seem to have a pattern of 3 slow flashes followed by about 10 very fast flashes.

Ive checked with the supplier and they def dont have different programmes