Christmas lights question

cncwhiz

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My house is off the road, so all I have is two railroad ties as pillars on either side of my driveway near the road. I want to put some lighted wreaths on the posts or something..but there is no power (about 1/4 mile from house). How could I do this? These are single strands of AC 120v LED lights on the wreaths.

Would a simple battery and inverter system power this? Looking for something cheap..

I'm sure a battery might push them, but wouldn't I need resistors to deliver the right type of voltage?

Battery powered lights have been considered too. I just don't want to spend a bunch of moneyto illuminate two simple wreaths.
 

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My house is off the road, so all I have is two railroad ties as pillars on either side of my driveway near the road. I want to put some lighted wreaths on the posts or something..but there is no power (about 1/4 mile from house). How could I do this? These are single strands of AC 120v LED lights on the wreaths.

Would a simple battery and inverter system power this? Looking for something cheap..

I'm sure a battery might push them, but wouldn't I need resistors to deliver the right type of voltage?

Battery powered lights have been considered too. I just don't want to spend a bunch of moneyto illuminate two simple wreaths.

Off hand, I'd go with LED lights to reduce the draw, and just use batteries and/or a solar charger to power them. This would of course be re-usable every x-mas.

It would also give the option of entry way lights year round if you swapped fixtures but used the same power. If you added a motion detector, it would be off if no one was there...and go on if people came by.
 

cncwhiz

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They are LED. It is a small strand of lights with about 30 heads at the most..whitening color. But of course they are 120v AC.
 

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The charger with inverter them, or, replace them with DC LED strings.
 
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