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Powering Your
Christmas (Holiday) Lights
Putting Christmas lights
ceiling You should use one wrap
on your golf cart is a
around for every 6 inches of pole.
Items you will need
great way to add fun to
Wrap the Christmas light wiring
any party, especially if
around the roof in an X shape and
LED Christmas lights
the party’s at a country
also down the back handrails. Do
club. You should use
not drape the lights across any
LED Christmas lights
seats or they may be sat on. Do
Auto DC to AC converter
for this job, as they use
not wrap any Christmas lights
less power and have
near the tires as they may get
Zip ties
plastic bulbs instead of
warped around the axle. Do not
glass bulbs. You will be
wrap any wires across the bottom
plugging the Christmas
of the golf cart as they may get
Electrical tape
lights directly into your
destroyed. Plug Christmas light
Golf cart if it has a 12v
strands into each other if you
port, or you’ll be using
need additional length of Christ-
a DC to AC converter if it has a mas light decoration.
normal auto charger port.
Step 3
Step 1
Plug the electrical plug into the 12v socket if your golf cart
Drive the golf cart into a ga-
has a normal AC outlet. If your golf cart has a DC outlet
rage or other sheltered area
(the cigarette lighter outlet) then pull the lighter plug out
where you can work on it. Dry
and put in the DC to AC converter plug. Then plug the LED
off the golf cart with a towel if
Christmas light plug into the 12v socket on the inverter
it is wet. It is best to never do
plug.
any wiring without the object
being dry. Turn the golf cart
Step 4
off and put the parking brake
Turn on the golf cart and watch the Christmas lights come
on.
on. If any do not come on then the strand may be bad or
Step 2
the plug may not be fully seated in the socket. Once you
fix any problems use zip ties to attach the Christmas light
Wrap the Christmas lights
strands to the support poles by wrapping the zip tie around
around the struts of the golf
the strand and cinching it tight. Once you’re done, use elec-
carts roll cage and over the
trical tape over the plugs to waterproof the connection.
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