Set of 20 PIFCO Sparkle Christmas Lights - Up Close and Personal Ep: 3 | EPIC FAIL VIDEO!!

In this video we get up close and personal with three sets of Pifco Sparkle Lights.

All three sets do not play nice and fail to work, I decided not to edit the footage of me faffing with them to show that these failures are not planned or scripted.

Anyone familiar with these types of lights know that they can be very fickle.

Do you own a set of these lights?

What do they mean to you?

Comment below!

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A little 'light' history.

The early 90's were the beginning of the end for 'classic' style Christmas light sets, new manufacturing and safety laws saw the delicate thinner cables replaced with thick and bulky black ones for 240v sets of lights, making them look cumbersome and chunky.

NOMA still produce some 'classic style' sets of lights, identical to the late 80's lights but unfortunately with this thick cable.

Over the years, Christmas lights have been replaced with characterless, shadeless sets of lights, then eventually we got the domination of LED lights.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of modern lights that I do like, and I will try to do some videos about them too.

We do hope that one of the legacy firms like PIFCO or NOMA bring back the classic style lights, perhaps in low voltage LED form in sets of 20 and 40, and possibly 60-100 too with the old style shades, a mix and match option would be brilliant.

What do you think ?

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00:00 - Intro
00:09 -Title Card
00:18 - Pifco Sparkle Lights, Personal History
01:17 - Three Sets
01:30 - Purchase History
01:47 - The Early Version & Looking at the Shades
02:27 - Cable Guard
02:37 - The Bulb Holder
03:01 - Slight Fading
03:14 - The Colours
03:54 - How I got 3 Sets
04:52 - The Late Version
05:03 - Separate Bulb Holders
05:08 - Later Bulb Holders
05:26 - Shade Comparison
06:06 - The Colours
06:37 - About this Set
07:06 - The Pifco Trait
07:40 - The Problems Begin, Not Lighting
07:59 - Fault Finding
08:46 - Loose Bulb?
08:55 - How the Center Terminal Comes Loose
09:32 - Some Strange Shenanigans Going On
09:53 - Snapped Bulb
10:16 - Wonky Bulbs
10:32 - I give up!
10:48 - Set Number 2
11:33 - Nothing!
12:06 - Blown Fuse Bulb?
12:18 - Lit at LAST!
12:26 - Or Not?
12:40 - The Colours
13:01 - Refraction Pattern
13:29 - Another Blown Bulb
14:24 - The Sound of an Escaping Shade
14:33 - Set Number 3 No Worky
14:39 - Another Broken Bulb!
15:06 - Do you have Any?
15:23 - Outro