Low voltage decorative light string including power supply

A decorative lighting system, said system comprising

• a power supply having an input adapted for connection to a standard residential electrical power outlet, said power supply including circuitry for converting the standard residential voltage to a low-voltage and higher frequency output,
• a plurality of pairs of conductors connected to the output of said power supply for supplying said low-voltage output to multiple sets of decorative lights, and
• a plurality of lights connected to each pair of said conductors along the lengths thereof, said plurality of lights divided into a plurality of groups of at least two lights, each of said groups of said lights being connected in parallel across each of said pairs of conductors.

A method of powering a string of decorative lights, said method comprising

• converting a standard residential electrical voltage to a low-voltage and a higher frequency, and
• supplying said low-voltage to a pair of parallel conductors having multiple decorative lights connected to said conductors along the lengths thereof, the plurality of lights divided into groups of at least two lights, each of said groups of said lights being connected in parallel across said conductors.