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A strand of blinking lights has one bulb that allows electricity to go to the other lights until a bimetallic strip in it gets hot enough to bend the strip and break the circuit causing electricity to stop going to the other lights. The lights then stay off until the bimetallic strip cools and bends back to its original position to conduct electricity again. There are other more complicated ways to control strings of lights using electronic control circuitry, but the blinker bulb is the way most of them work because of its low cost.
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