New LED Christmas Lights

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<p>Being so avant garde, :wink: I went and bought the new light emitting diode (LED) Christmas lights for the tree. Supposedly they save 80-90% of the electricity of common mini incandescent lights and have an estimated useful life of 20 years. Very cool so far.</p>

<p>Anyone else try these?</p>

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<p>I saw them on TV. Are they good?</p>

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<p>I really like them so far. Cool to the touch, durable, pleasing colors and they use less energy.</p>

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<p>parent2noles… Come on down…</p>

<p>And the price…?</p>

<p>I guess we’ll have to factor into the price not only the energy savings, but also the durability. I get so frustrated when only half a strand lights up, that after checking the fuse and shaking the lights, I just throw the strand away and get new lights.</p>

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<p>I bought two brands as the first type sold out. It sold for about $10 (50% off list of ~$19) per string of 60 C3 lights at a locally-owned hardware store. These were of the best quality as far as I could tell. Every aspect of the physical LED container was sealed. These were made by a company that specializes in commercial LED lights. Very nicely made. </p>

<p>I needed more so I tried Walmart. They had a different brand (lesser quality than the others) for ~$7-8 per strand of 50 C3 lights. They had a plentiful supply. The construction was less solid, more like typical incandescent mini lights.</p>

<p>I grew so tired of troubleshooting mini lights it was just time for a new approach.</p>

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<p>I grew so tired of troubleshooting mini lights it was just time for a new approach.</p>

<p>You are speaking for so many of us…</p>

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<p>I bought some clear ones, then returned them. I felt like I was looking at those new headlights in my tree. Maybe the multicolored lights would look better but our stores only had clear and ?purple?</p>

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<p>I bought them at Costco. They look nice. Anything so that I don’t have to find the one broken bulb ever again.</p>

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<p>The ones I like the best are made by this company: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.neo-neon.com/[/url]”>http://www.neo-neon.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>These are the ones that sold out…and appear to be the best made of the ones I bought.</p>