<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by franken:
i recall someone on this board collects christmas lights. i saw a sample set of 150 red, green, yellow leds on a 65 foot string. the wholesale company i work for will be getting a quantity of these within a week. they are supposed to have 8 modes, but the sample i saw was lacking the control box. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Hi Franken.
I got mine today - thanks!!
This model has 120 LEDs on a 65' string, and as you mentioned, has no controller despite what it says on the box. The colors are actually quite nice - the green is green and not that baby puke yellowish color like I was expecting. They're bright enough to stand out, yet not so bright you need sunglasses to look at your Christmas tree with.
The included "wall wart" supplies 24VAC at 200mA; in practical use the LEDs should only draw 100mA. Half of them are on during the first half of the AC cycle, the other half come on in the second part of the AC cycle.
So there's not nearly as "flickery" as they could have been.
The very tips of the lamps are kind of magnifying, so they have a sparkling effect when you walk around them.
The lights stay cool enough you can run them in the box without anything becoming too warm, and the low voltage/low current makes them inherently safer, especially for those who own chewing pets like rats, hamsters, or new puppies.
With the lid closed and after running for about an hour, the interior of the box was probably not much more than 30°C (around 87°F if I guessed right).
The wall wart stays cool, as if there were no load on it whatsoever.
I might want to buy some more of these for the holidays... I suspect this box is going to be hung up and used year 'round after I've taken pictures and whatnot for the website...
So there's my initial thoughts on these... and I haven't even taken them out of the box yet.