Aye and what doesn't actually pop the breaker WILL heat up any weak points on the circuit.
We had a hand full of Xmas lights on the porch but the circuit out there was fed by the tail end of the front parlor and all of them were wired beginning across one outlet bridge.
That bridge should have been 3 wires twisted together in the back of the outlet box instead of being tied to the one plug outlet and across a 1/8 inch piece of sheet brass.
It took me three days to notice the smell and another three to figure out where it was coming from.
In this 140 year old house, by all rights, it should have lit the fuse that would have burned the whole house down in 15 minutes.
My guardian angles have been working over time almost my entire life.
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