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I just want everything to know that these things exist and are
available? They are LED Christmas lights for sale. Although they are not
completely indestructible, they don't burn out the way incandescent lights
do. There is a retail version having 35 "bulbs" for $8. It has 12 red, 12
orangish-yellow, 6 green and 5 blue bulbs. The green ones are a dim
yellow-green "olive green" but the other colors look good.
Brookstone sells a better version for $19.95 plus shipping with 70 bulbs
in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, with a better green.
These are plain, non-blinking strings. Power consumption of the 35 bulb retail version is about 1.5 watts, for
the whole 35-bulb string. As for where I have seen the retail version? At Walgreens and Eckerd.
In the Philadelphia area, I have yet to find it anywhere else. I did see
it absent at Rite Aid, CVS and a True Value hardware store. |
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-One of the chain drugstores here in Canada had what must be about the same
thing on sale for $9.99 last week. I was almost curious enough about them
to spend the money. Maybe when they go on sale again. While maybe I might like them as Christmas lights, I was trying to decide
through the package if the LEDs could be harvested for other things. If
the LEDs were closer to "ultrabrite" than run of the mill LEDs, and could
be extracted, they might be a good source of LEDs for other projects. -It may warm your heart to know that the Amish here in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, have adopted LED buggy lights as acceptable for
use by the members. Too many Amish were driving at night with the
standard lights off because it ran down the battery on long trips. -Ever lit a match to a Christmas tree? Somehow, LED Christmas tree
lights sound like a good idea to me, from a safety standpoint. |
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