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The adapter I’m referring to is the kind that you can screw a light bulb into the top of it and has two AC female plugs on the side and this adapter socket screws into any lamp or in my case my front porch light. Once ‘installed’ the lightbulb turns on fine, but the whole purpose of this adapter is to power a small string of lights on a Christmas wreath hanging on my front door and they don’t turn on (also, I’ve tried other methods of powering them, first from inside, but the door won’t close with cord running outside to inside, and there are no outlets outside within reason, this is an older residence). I know the lights on the wreath are good, I’ve taken the lightbulb, adapter, and extension cord inside and tried it in a different lightbulb socket and it powers xmas lights. I do not understand why it won’t work outside. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, Have you tried both ‘female’ sockets in the adapter? Possibly one of the ‘female’ outlets is faulty. It may be that if you only tried one and it didn’t work and then went inside and plugged into the one on the other side (as you can’t tell the difference which is which) and it did work, well you would be confused if you didn’t try both. Take it inside, check that it works on both female outlets in the adapter. If it doesn’t, mark the one that it does work on if it does only work on one outlet. Then go outside and make sure that you plug the string of lights into the ‘marked’ one and see if it now works.
