Christmas Lights

[ich_liebe_meine_arbeit]

Curious if anyone puts up lights this time of year?

Anyone have any experience with this type of light?
http://www.christmas-lights-online....ng-_-Green-wire/productinfo/LEDC925L-WRM-GRN/

 

[mrramsey]

Curious if anyone puts up lights this time of year?

Anyone have any experience with this type of light?
http://www.christmas-lights-online....ng-_-Green-wire/productinfo/LEDC925L-WRM-GRN/

I have some very similar to those on my tree. Had them for about 3 years now.

 

[ich_liebe_meine_arbeit]

I have some very similar to those on my tree. Had them for about 3 years now.

Thank you, I would be using them outdoors. Do you believe they would be bright enough for an outdoor display? I don't have any experience with led and the C9s I saw in Home Depot that appear to be similar to these don't look very bright. Maybe the store lights are washing them out?

 

[Falcon67]

Not much choice. I run all C9 incandescent lights and it'd cost me $250 to convert the few strings I use to smooth LEDs. I plan to go and buy one string of those ugly textured red LEDs and transfer them to an existing set, hang them up and see. The C7s like them on the tree are pretty bright and not too distracting. I keep all my old C9 strings because I like the spacing better than the new strings.

 

[Cougar]

Those look like the ones I tried a few years back.
Put them on a big blue spruce out front of the house.
Did it all in blue lights, forget how many strings, a lot of them.
Plugged them in, some were kind of blue others different shades of purple.
Looked lousy. Don't use those lights anymore.

 

[Bert_]

Most of the LED strings I've seen just run on half wave rectified AC with no filter capacitor. They have awful 60hz flicker.

I don't put up many, just a few in the windows so I don't look like a scrooge. I use incandescent sets.

 

[PhysicsDude]

I bought C9 LED lights from Home Depot this year for my house. They were about the same price at Home Depot as comparable lights on Amazon. They're just like the incandescent ones, and about the same brightness. You don't want them super bright, so in the store they don't look that impressive but on your house in the dark they look great.

They are half rectified with bad AC flicker. You notice it a lot if you shake the lights while looking at them, they have that strobe effect. Once mounted and 50' away I think they look fine. Maybe indoors on a Tree or something they might bug you with the flicker. They are very energy efficient.

 

[Falcon67]

Most of the LED strings I've seen just run on half wave rectified AC with no filter capacitor. They have awful 60hz flicker.

I don't put up many, just a few in the windows so I don't look like a scrooge. I use incandescent sets.

So, it wasn't just me. Thanks. Saw that right off on some new strings of multi minis. Looks OK from a short distance.

Which also means the idea of buying strings and switching bulbs wont fly.