Canuke
Enlightened
For those interested in rope lights, you might want to take a look in the holiday lighting section at Costco. I found white LED ropelight with one-inch spacing at just under $25 for a 25-foot ropelight, at the Lindero Road Costco in Westlake Village California.
That is not only less than half the cost per foot of commercial sources (80% cheaper in some cases), but is even cheaper per foot than the Philips ropelights at Target, despite the latter having only half the LED's with two-inch spacing. When run on rectified unfiltered 120VDC, these are the brightest ropelight I have.
Unfortunately, they also run the warmest on that power, about body-temp warm in open air, but almost hot if surrounded by insulating material, as is likely in an installation. Adding filter caps to that voltage will likely fry these... perhaps running two in series from filtered 160VDC would work fine.
These are not inter-connectable as is with either of the blue or gold-box Philips, and lack the rectification of the gold-box Philips (you'll have to add it yourself if the 60Hz flicker gives you headaches).
That is not only less than half the cost per foot of commercial sources (80% cheaper in some cases), but is even cheaper per foot than the Philips ropelights at Target, despite the latter having only half the LED's with two-inch spacing. When run on rectified unfiltered 120VDC, these are the brightest ropelight I have.
Unfortunately, they also run the warmest on that power, about body-temp warm in open air, but almost hot if surrounded by insulating material, as is likely in an installation. Adding filter caps to that voltage will likely fry these... perhaps running two in series from filtered 160VDC would work fine.
These are not inter-connectable as is with either of the blue or gold-box Philips, and lack the rectification of the gold-box Philips (you'll have to add it yourself if the 60Hz flicker gives you headaches).