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Ok I have to share this here because I wont admit it to the wife 
So each year when we put up our decorations I have been making a make shift fence to really keep the kids from touching the props on the lawn after a few were damaged. Over the years I've added the dancing lights to give them some character but this year I decided to replace all the pumpkin lights for the fence with rope lights. So I go online, find what I thought was a really great price and buy. Get them this weekend, plug them all in and they work! For about 20 minutes. Then they shut off. ? Check the breaker....all good. So I go to the switch and turn them back on. Took a while but I got them back on! For about 2 minutes.
Now the switch is totally dead. And I just put it in! Its one of those new fangled Z wave switches you can turn on with your phone! (those with electrical knowledge are probably laughing and realized what I did)
So I'm really confused. No issue with the breaker and the lights work fine when I plug them in to a regular outlet. Think more and more and more then look at the rope light box. Not LED as I intended but incandescent rope lights. So basically I was throwing over 1000 watts at a switch that can handle 600 max not including the rest of the props. Not only that, the LEDs are a WHOLE lot more expensive. So I call the company back, get an RMA and ask if I can pay the difference in cash
They agree, I tell the wife I'm returning them for a better deal which is essentially true since the new switch I had to buy can handle the LED rope lights 
But we are back up and running. yay!
If you've made it through this far congrats. And if it made you feel better about yourself then success!
So each year when we put up our decorations I have been making a make shift fence to really keep the kids from touching the props on the lawn after a few were damaged. Over the years I've added the dancing lights to give them some character but this year I decided to replace all the pumpkin lights for the fence with rope lights. So I go online, find what I thought was a really great price and buy. Get them this weekend, plug them all in and they work! For about 20 minutes. Then they shut off. ? Check the breaker....all good. So I go to the switch and turn them back on. Took a while but I got them back on! For about 2 minutes.
Now the switch is totally dead. And I just put it in! Its one of those new fangled Z wave switches you can turn on with your phone! (those with electrical knowledge are probably laughing and realized what I did)
So I'm really confused. No issue with the breaker and the lights work fine when I plug them in to a regular outlet. Think more and more and more then look at the rope light box. Not LED as I intended but incandescent rope lights. So basically I was throwing over 1000 watts at a switch that can handle 600 max not including the rest of the props. Not only that, the LEDs are a WHOLE lot more expensive. So I call the company back, get an RMA and ask if I can pay the difference in cash
But we are back up and running. yay!
If you've made it through this far congrats. And if it made you feel better about yourself then success!