Gadgetopia

I recently purchased the Light Keeper for the same reasons. It was half the price and the only difference I could see is that it didn't have that shunt zapper built in. I figured, how many bulbs can possible be burnt out on one string? At least two or three I found. It was easy enough to scan the entire string listening for beeps, but I don't know how one would ever do it on a prelit Christmas tree! Having known how well this gizmo works ahead of time, I propably would have splurged for the Pro version. Mind you the price of the pro would also get me a few extra strings of lights!

This post saved my sanity (Deane may beg to differ)!

We purchased a 9.5 foot pre-lit tree last year and this year when we plugged it in we were unhappy to find that several of the strings had portions of lights that had mysteriously quit working. I was beginning to think that buying a pre-lit tree with metal clips securing the lights to all the gazillion branches was a terrible idea. It's not exactly easy to throw out the strand that quit working.

We purchased the Light Keeper Pro for $19.95 at Target. It saved the day. We were able to locate a few of the faulty bulbs and kick-start the rest of the string using the trigger.

I once again am on good terms with my Christmas tree, but I'll be watching closely, Light Keeper gun in hand.

Being a skeptic it was sheer frustration and some positive web reviews that drove me to get this. I had two strings out on a pre-lit tree and was contemplating my limited options. After buying this I had both strings repaired - two bulbs per string - in 15 minutes. THIS PRODUCT WORKS AS ADVERTISED! I plugged it in and had to give only one pulse on each string and all working bulbs lit up! I no longer stress about a string dying during the season after the ornaments are on. I highly recommend it!

I got one, and it worked pretty well for me. I did save several stringsof lights, although a few sets of icecicle lights had a HUGE number of bad bulbs. Very handy tool, especially for the prestrung stuff.

Well, to add to what others have said, Lightkeeper Pro really does work. Out of sheer frustration with the failing strings of lights and a growing environmental ethics sense that throwing yet another strand out was not OK, I looked for anything that could save the situation. And then a miracle. On the web I read about LKP. And then I found it on sale at Lowes. And then I tried it out and on the first click had my first string of lights fixed! Next three strings had problems that took longer to solve, but in each case the LKP lead me to the proper fix. Lights are all working! There really is a Santa Claus!

I have had two years with the Lightkeeper Pro. It has located a problem in my pre-lit tree, saved my girlfriends icicle lights, helped with the location of a problem in a set of another friends lights (those we threw away as it detected a fault in the wiring after we did a number of other things) and this year saved my twinkling light set. This set had a bulb that had only one wire. When I inserted a bulb socket into the LPK I saw one bulb flicking blue light. When I pulled that one out of the set I found that the bulb had only one wire. Replaced that bulb and VOILA - my set was fixed. And those were and expensive set due to the twinkle feature. LPK has been worth every penny and I have gotten several friends to buy them too.

What a lifesaver! It seems all that could go wrong with the lighting decorations at our house, have. Not an issue now that I picked up the LKP for my husband. When I made the impulse buy at Lowe's last week, I really thought it was yet another gimmick. Something else to remain in its packaging at the bottom of the lighting crate. I was so wrong yesterday when he was able to fix two strands of lights in under 10 minutes. This is a must for everyone that buys minature lights! The instructions may take a couple of re-reads to understand fully, but the end result is not having to deal with overcrowded stores and empty lighting displays, leaving one only to choose from the $8.00 replacement sets. Tis the season! Our house is once again happy because LKP saved the bad light strands!

Something that actually works. Got the pre-lit tree up and 2 out of 10 strings worked. After fiddling around for well over an hour I was ready to go buy new lights. I remembered seeing the LKP on QVC. I took a chance and went to Lowes and found one and bought it. All the lights are now working and I'm looking for more to fix.

my mpther bought be a light keeper for my house! man that thing is kick ass. no gimmick here it works! when you have well over 10,00 lights like i have you want one of those around! :} what a great toy! who ever came up with that must be rich my now! now i can go back to being the griswalds!

This is the best tool I've ever seen for fixing light strings. I just fixed my pre-light tree in a matter of minutes. I had 16 bad bulbs. This thing is amazing, you can trace the hot wire, check a bulb, or best of all you can plug into the string via an empty slot. You hit the button and the string will light up again so you can quickly locate the bad bulbs. Amazing, I wish I thought of it.

OK.....THIS THING IS AMAZING!! Besides fixing about 6 strands of 1/2 dead lights, I have 4 strands of blue icicles that last year, I decided to leave up to see if they'd work. (lazy) The last strand of 15 feet of those, were under a broken gutter, and during the spring and summer I had torrential rainfall coming directly off my roof, like a waterfall, going right on and over my last string. I knew I'd be buying a new set to replace those, seeing the bath they took, many times. Just now ( I stopped to come in here and write this) I was turning on the icicle lights, they all came on but the last string, which when I looked at them closely , had to laugh and said there's NO WAY these will ever work again. I got the " gun: out, and clicked it about 20 times,>>>> they all came on!!!!! NOW I've SEEN EVERYTHING!!!!! BUY THIS ITEM ITS WORTH THE MONEY THE 1st DAY YOU OWN IT! Dave, Carmel NY

A PA deer hunting buddy of mine told me about this troubleshooting tool last week while hunting in the woods of PA. This guy really goes all out, tastefullly decorating the outside of his home and covering his indoor Christmas tree with a ga-zillion tiny white lights. Well, today I started the job of putting up my outdoor lights, a job that I love almost as much as going a oral surgeon for a root canal. To no surprise I had sections of lights that although they tested A-OK ten minutes before, did not work when I put them on my outdoor shrubs. I drove to Lowe's and bought the last one of this little tools for $8.99 plus tax and couldn't wait to try it out. After opening the package and spending about 5 minutes reading the instructions I was out the door to make the neighborhood a little brighter. Folks, It works as advertised and could not be easier to use! This invention deserves a spot among one of the best little inventions to come along in a long time! I was so excited I called the company and told them how happy I was with the tool. Save the frustration, the nasty words and the cost of buying new strings of lights. If you can find it, BUY IT!

I bought this dandy little tool a few years back and have been Thanking my lucky stars for it ever since.. I have a ton of lights I put up every year and each year I use my handy dandy lightkeeper Pro.. And again each year my lights are shinning bright. This year my pre-lighted tree came out of his box and a string was NOT working. I found my Lightkeeper pro and thought "OH this is not good" my batteries were dead.. But I plugged the string in to the PRO.. and in an instand there was light.. Even after being stored with last years batteries it WORKED!!! Thank you thank you for this great product...And this website... Diane Warren Santa Maria CA..

Why me? I have a pre-lit Christmas tree that two tree rings went out after putting up the tree. So, I went to Lowes and bought the Light Keeper Pro. Well, what a disappointment. I couldn't get anything to work. The fuses test out okay. I get beeps along the strands, but every light I take out is burned out. Anyway, the light keeper pro has been a total waste of $20 for me. I should have bought two strands of 100 lights for $6 and wrapped them around the tree. I would have been money ahead and stress free.

Nobody's expectations were lower than mine when I bought the Light Keeper Pro, but what the heck? Last Sunday I got all the lights out of the basement to decorate, and sure enough about five strands had 50% of the lights not working. I hooked the gun up to an unlit bulb socket, squeezed the trigger and POOF! The tool worked on all the dead strings, I even used it outside on the tree when one strand wouldn't light. It didn't work on one strand of my prelit tree, but that might mean an actual bulb fell out somewhere and I can't find it. It KILLS me that I threw out probably 9 strands of lights last year in disgust when they could have been easily fixed.