Fibre Optic Xmas Tree

[Jocole47]

Hi Just set up my tree for Xmas and discovered the plug in transformer for the lights has been damaged (1 of 2 pins has broken off) Does anyone know if and where I can buy a replacement transformer for these lights The label on it says 12V 50Hz 1800 Am

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

 

[SaladFingers]

Take the transformer to Maplins, they'll have one.

 

[davelx]

Hi Just set up my tree for Xmas and discovered the plug in transformer for the lights has been damaged (1 of 2 pins has broken off) Does anyone know if and where I can buy a replacement transformer for these lights The label on it says 12V 50Hz 1800 Am

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Hope it's not one of these:

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/12...he-air-by-electric-shock-from-christmas-tree/

I await with interest the explanation of how he got a shock from a fibre optic Xmas tree!

 

[Iggifer]

I find it hard to believe he was thrown '6 feet in the air'

And they must be 12/24vdc surely? That's uncomfortable sure but it doesn't throw you across the room

 

[RF Lighting]

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story or the oppourtunity to sue argos.

 

[ricicle]

£££££££££££'s

And the chavs will wonder why Argos is more expensive next year

 

[Iggifer]

Not like argos are likely to lose in court though

 

[ricicle]

And they must be 12/24vdc surely? That's uncomfortable sure but it doesn't throw you across the room

There is no voltage at the extremities of a fibre optic tree ! The light is generated down in the base (hence the electric stops there ). The light is transmitted up the fibres !!!

 

[Iggifer]

I don't think we can argue that he actually got a shock, but I would guess from the cost of the tree, the transfomer is built into the plug, therefore anything he could have access too (the base perhaps) was 12vdc

Or as somebody in the comments of the article posted, a set of 230vac lights draped over the tree (sounds much more likely, but would look gash!)

 

[bernardgreen]

In the video of the mum talking ( on the Sun's page ) she appears to suggest she wasn't looking at her son when he got the shock. Maybe it was not from the tree but some other electrical item.

Burns to hands and face and the room appears to be carpeted so the second point of contact almost certainly had to be something he touched while touching the live point of contact.

I personally doubt the tree was involved, unless he was playing with the lamp unit which suggests possible lack of parental supervision.

 

[Astra99]

I find it hard to believe that the "belt" was from the fibre-optic tree. But some of these trees do have LEDs on the branches as well. These are often powered from the base of the tree by a 3.5mm jack-plug and socket arrangement. I suppose it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the wall-wart was faulty and mains voltage appeared on the ELV side, which caused the insulation to break down, making the tree branches live to earth. Just using the switch on the base of the tree would not switch off the wall wart. I am speculating of course; to be sure we will have to wait for the outcome of any enquiry/court case, and even then it may not been conclusive!