LED Christmas lights
We bought 12 strands of LED Christmas lights at
Fry's for $10 each.
Each strand (of
70 lights) draws about a watt and a half of electricity, so we've got them
plugged and draped all around the house as nightlights. I leave them on 24/7,
year round.
I'm sure they'll be cheaper
after Christmas, and cheaper yet next year, but I've been waiting for these for
years. I've been predicting that LEDs would supplant normal and fluorescent
light bulbs for a long time, but they've been developing slower than I
expected.
Besides drawing almost no
power, the lights should theoretically last, um, a long time. Maybe 50 years.
Or more. Nobody's really tested them that long, but they _should_ be nearly
permanent.
The multicolor ones give the
best spectrum of light (surprise!), and the white ones are really yellow. But
they rock.
Filed Fri - December
3, 2004, 07:07 AM in
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