Please contact me at tonydotholm@comcast.net.

I’ve been trying to find supplies to also build my own lights.

Thanks

Once again i have to reply on a thread about LED christmas lights because it gets flooded with false claims or accusations.

Erin: LED lights can twinkle just as nice as incandescent lights and even nicer because you can do all kinds of cool and/or fun things with them. I make my own LED light strings in FULL COLOUR RGB LEDs, I don’t see anyone do that anytime soon with incandescent lamps.
If a LED is on all the time and an incandescent lamp is on 15% of the time (which I really, really doubt, I would think at least 25% on time), the LED will still be just as efficient as an equally bright incandescent lamp.
LED twinkling just requires some driver circuitry, which can be as simple as one 555 timer chip and some resistors and capacitors.

Ellen: There are now LEDs that guarantee a 90% light output over their expected life range of 100K hours, so your claim is at the very least inaccurate. Incandescent bulbs will have died out many many years before these LEDs. When these LEDs are run for 8 hours a day, every day of the year, they will last +/- 34 years and will still be 90% as bright as they where 34 years earlier when they where first ignited. Even with less efficient LEDs at let’s say 40000 hours, they would last 13 years at 8 hours a day. If you used incandescent bulbs 8 hours a day, I guarantee you they will start to die in a year, maximum 2.
Led bulbs can be replaced depending on the manufacturer and model, you could also take out the soldering iron or ask someone with some minimal sodlerign skills to do it for you (in 13 years from now, maybe you will be able to solder them yourself).

Warm white LED lamps are readily available at most LED suppliers, so there is no reason not to make a warm white LED chain. These warm white LEDs aso have a very pleasing spectrum.

I hope this corrects some of the misconceptions I read here.

Sincere regards,
Steven

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Modern american way of life.”

good thing i live in vancouver, canada where we’re we haven’t overpopulated a desert and we have ample hydroelectricity. i’m plenty aware about environmental issues, and have likely been for far longer than you have, but there’s no way you can tell me that those lights look good unless you’re one of those people who wears crocs.

Modern american way of life.