One of the big advantages of LED lighting is normally the long life, but out of the maybe 2 dozen strings of LED holiday lights I've had most of them started getting dead bulbs within a couple of seasons, some after just a week or so of use. On top of all that they don't last worth a crap. there is a wide variation in brightness from color to color, and the worst part is that they almost all are half wave self rectified and flicker very noticeably, at least to my eyes. The LED lights are almost all too dim, the colors are bland and not the most pleasant, some are downright sickly looking. I've been an early adopter of most LED lighting and have been pleased with it but LED Christmas lights just have not lived up and I went completely back to incandescent, vintage C9 outside, C6 on the tree and miniature for other things. The difference was amazing - the cheerful, warm and bright Christmas lights that I'd loved since childhood were back! I replaced them with incandescent strings that I custom-configured with alternating clear and transparent red 5W C7 lamps spaced at 12". I tolerated the LEDs for a couple of years, hoping I'd get used to them, but I finally realized they just weren't going to work. It was several things: the highly-saturated colors, the purple which isn't a traditional Christmas light color, the odd light distribution, and their overall dimness. But right from the start, they seemed cold and not very "Christmas-y". A few years ago, trying to be "green" and modern, I bought some multicolored LED light strings for the evergreen hedge along my front sidewalk, replacing the multicolored translucent C7 incandescents I'd been using. I was born in 1957, so I grew up with incandescent Christmas lights, mostly C7 and C9 bulbs, and the miniature bulbs which came along later. I think that with many of us who decorate for Christmas, our tastes are most influenced by what we saw as children.
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