Lighting element adaptor

A lighting element adaptor comprising:

• complementary male and female AC-power connectors axially aligned with one another along an axis, the male AC-power connector configured to engage an overhead lighting socket so as to receive AC power therefrom and to hang therefrom, the female AC-power connector conductively coupled with the male AC-power connector of a lighting so as to receive AC power therefrom, the female AC-power connector configured to receive a lighting element and to provide thereto the AC power received from the male AC-power connector;
• and
• a rain guard projecting radially outward from the axis of the complementary male and female AC-power connectors with the male AC-power connector projecting from a top surface of the rain guard and the female AC-power connector accessible from an underside of the rain guard, the rain guard having a peripheral drip edge that circumscribes the axis, thereby providing rain protection to the female AC-power connector, a minimum radial distance from the axis to the drip edges being greater than two times a diameter of the male AC-power connector.