Why do the lights on my metal christmas tree keep shorting out?

why do the lights on my metal christmas tree short out|||Since metal is conductor, if your lights without good insulation, the metal tree provides a way for the electricity.





Solution is to change to a none metal tree or lights with better insulation to break up the shortting connection.





Also, do not turch the metal tree, you might get to electrical shot from it.|||You may have loose wiring in the connector or a cut in the wire. It could be some internal malfunction too. I recommend a new tree.|||Now what do you mean short out. If it shorts out to the tree there would be a black burn mark at the location. If you keep putting new light strings on and your tripping the breaker its probably not shorting out. Over loading ??? How many strings are you using? If you are using allot of lights, the current draw is too much for that circuit. You would have to plug into half the lights from one outlet and plug the other half in a different outlet. The outlets would have to be in different rooms though because the ones in that room are on the same circuit.