One of the changes I’ve made in my Christmas light display this year is the removal of four strings of incandescent lights (150 each, 500 total) with five strings of LED lights (300 each, 1500 total) on the long, narrow strip of land next to the driveway.
These are the old incandescent lights, with that warm glow that makes them so popular.
These are the new LED lights. You can see, first of all, that they have a far different color temperature. While performing far, FAR better than the first LED Christmas lights a few years ago, they’re still more dim than incandescent, and they appear far “cooler” and more toward the blue end of the spectrum. Of course, there are also far more of them, three times as many for the same amount of power. They’re also supposed to last far longer without burning out, but I haven’t had them long enough to test that claim.
With so many more lights, instead of just stringing them along the rose bushes on the ground and having a couple of long extension cords needed to get them where I want them, it’s just one huge, long string, and there are more than enough lights to fill the bushes along the edge of the yard in addition to in the rose bushes. More, more, more lights is always good! Having them look a bit funky and “Halloween like” is less desireable.
But LEDs are the wave of the future. They cost a few dollars more to start with, but given their longevity and durability and power savings, they’re cheaper in the long run. But I doubt that I’ll ever give up completely on the incandescent lights, especially the bigger, brighter bulbs along the gutters.
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