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Are the fairly new LED christmas light strings worth buying? I'm kind of frustrated with the rate of failure on the ice cycle lights and heard the LEDs are long lasting... but when I did some searching on customer comments, the LEDs didn't look real promising either.
One customer said they bought three strings of c6 bulbs last year and this year none of the three strings work. Appear to have filled with rain water and rusted. Another said two out of eight strings were not working this year. Anyone have better results and are C6 or C9 preferred?
I understand they use less electric, but I'm not so much concerned about that since a couple of weeks use won't save much compared to the extra price. Another advantage is being able to put several times more strings together in one long circuit and that appeals to me.
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As my husband said, when we looked at them at the store - "if they last so long, why do they give you replacement bulbs?"
Seriously, as cheap a regular lights are at the 50 or 75% off sales, why not just buy new ones to replace the ones that fail?
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I'm afraid that the old days of reusing Christmas lights are pretty much GONE. We had a set of 30 year old GE xmas lights, but they died last year (finally). You'll never see that level of over-engineering and high quality again.
Holiday lights are disposable, just like small appliances. Alas.
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yeah. we just buy new ones (for next year) when they go on sale after the holidays. No matter how carefully i store the ones I have, they usually fail the next year.
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Last year at the after Christmas sales we bought LED icicle lights at 75% off, I strung them up last week and they are working almost well. I have a few bulbs that aren't lighting, haven't had a chance to look at them, though.
It was really nice needing only one extension cord to run the lights across the whole house, this is what appealed to me the most.
I got frustrated when I installed relatively new regular mini icicle lights last year and every other section didn't work. Never could track that problem down. I called them relatively new as I had picked them up the previous year after Christmas. That's why we opted to try the LED lights this year.
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My first string of LED lights are now 5 years old.
Only complaint is the bulbs are not replaceable like some of the new ones.
Also they are not as bright, but that's actually a + , IMO or use.
Replacements would be nice for when someone steps on one or a toddler twists one in the socket "not touching it".
Yellow ribbons for the troops on the 70 foot blue spruce again this year.
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We are only using LED lights
They look great, don't get hot, and have been very reliable.
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Had a strand of exterior LEDs that failed (well, dimmed) last year. Not sure if it was a bad current, but a new strand in its place was just fine. First set was in use about only, um...for six hours a night for about a month. Alas indeed!
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We bought 4 strings of white LEDs for indoor Christmas tree @ WalMart on Monday. My wife put them on the lower part of the tree and decided we needed 4 more strings for the top part. We went back to the same WalMart yesterday and bought 4 more strings, same box, same brand, same price. We got them home and they are a different color white. The 1st ones are a bright white and the 2nd ones are a yellowish white. Now she's trying to put a couple of strings of multi-color in to try to blend them together.
I keep telling her it's 22 days till Christmas, what's the difference in white & yellow white?
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