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Where Have You Found LED Holiday Lights?

Posted by Cliff on from the strings-of-luminescent-pearls dept.

glassware asks: "Perhaps you know that LED holiday Lights last hundreds of times longer than regular lights. Perhaps you know that your local utility company recommends them for drastically lowering your electricity bill. But my real problem is, where can you find them? I've found lousy battery-operated LED lights in some department stores; but even in the best stores I give up after a half hour of searching, and so far I see only one vendor making them. Surely there must be alternatives. Where do you get your LED holiday lights?"

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  1. Not quite there yet by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As taken from http://www.es.wapa.gov/pubs/files/2001_holiday_lig hts_fs_es.pdf:

    http://www.foreverbright.com/
    http://www.ccl-light.com/

    Nope, ain't a lot out there.

    I think many rope lights use LEDs. You should look into those.

  2. And where can you find ones NOT made in China? by Gothmolly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since I do not support countries which are de jure repressive regimes, forced infanticide, who long ignored an AIDS crisis, and who believe that their people are State property, I do not buy products made in China. Where can you get holiday lights made elsewhere?

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  3. bad news re: bulk discounts by timothy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I called a few distributors, hoping that I'd be able to get a better price if I bought more LED lights at once.

    Short answer is, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

    In any quantity that a regular person would buy (as opposed to, say, someone in charge of site purchases for Disney World), you're not going to get a discount, is the long answer. (I'd like to hear contrary evidence, but that is the received wisdom so far.)

    I'm not going to buy more than 10 boxes, though. I figure 10 boxes (at $20 a pop) is already really pushing it, but I don't want them for "Christmas lights" exactly -- I want them as general string lights which I might happen to use during the winter holidays borrowed from the No. European pagans, but will also set up in my room etc.

    timothy

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  4. power source on those? by timothy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mononoke:

    Can you clairify whether those strings need a wall wart, or if (like the foreverbright ones) they just plug into a wall directly?

    (Also, white would be nice :))

    timothy

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    1. Re:power source on those? by Mononoke · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Can you clairify whether those strings need a wall wart, or if (like the foreverbright ones) they just plug into a wall directly?
      I haven't held any in my hand, but I'll bet they are non-wall wart, with the 'lamps' in series.
      (Also, white would be nice :))
      Very nice. White LEDs are still a bit too pricy yet, though.

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  5. Where? by drydiggins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Raley's (Supermarket) Placerville (Calif) 'bout eleven dollars a string. red, amber & multi(?) color. (Just thought a straight-up, non-hostile reply might be novel.) Cheers!

  6. Re:rope lights using LEDs? by cybermace5 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Better idea, go to Target and grab a few coils of their electroluminescent wire, in the car-pimping department.

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