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Sven -- I'd bet five bucks that the aroma of evergreen masks the melting vinyl extension-cord fumes.

A few years ago all Christmas lights here (far up north in Europe) were in series, but today these seem to have been abandoned in favor of 12V lights in parallell with a transformer. I suppose people got tired of playing "find the broken bulb"

"Fairy lights a la DC"

C-H, get a ~$1.50 series-light string, cut out one or more "12-14 volt" sections, and
parallel them on the end of a cigar-lighter cord -- e.g., CalRad 90-607 http://www.ba-electronics.com/tc6111b.jpg or equal, with 3M
"UG" jelly splices, and have festive dashboard lighting!
... guaranteed as distracting as any cell phone.