If you are using C7 or C9 bulbs then it is not so bad.
But what if you do not want all the glass color to flake off as in the case of incandescent ones.
What if you want blue emitting ones and not white colored ones for better color and they will not fade?
What if you want to use minis? God help you.
Christmas lights for the most part are little more than mass produced junk.
Each year I set up a tree outside and leave it there until the snow is gone in the spring.
During the winter, at least half of the light strings have failed in one way or another.
For example, if one bulb goes out, either the whole string goes dark or half of it.
Next year, I replace the bad strings with new ones and find out they changed the socket
so I can not interchange the lights from the year before.
I'm ready to do my own. Can I (we) build a better string?
But what if you do not want all the glass color to flake off as in the case of incandescent ones.
What if you want blue emitting ones and not white colored ones for better color and they will not fade?
What if you want to use minis? God help you.
Christmas lights for the most part are little more than mass produced junk.
Each year I set up a tree outside and leave it there until the snow is gone in the spring.
During the winter, at least half of the light strings have failed in one way or another.
For example, if one bulb goes out, either the whole string goes dark or half of it.
Next year, I replace the bad strings with new ones and find out they changed the socket
so I can not interchange the lights from the year before.
I'm ready to do my own. Can I (we) build a better string?
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