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LED Christmas lights still annoy me. Let’s try some more fixes.
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He so rarely says he thinks things are “neat” anymore.
I recommended he get a 3d printer and print PETG caps to put on the bulbs. So much control over color and brightness and should be easy enough to get friction fit and easy to put on.
Nostalgia is the only motivation for this. The only reason he thinks that blue and green LEDs are just “wrong” is because its not what he associates with his own childhood Christmas memories.
Not that there’s anything wrong with chasing after childhood nostalgia, but over time more and more people will associate the newer LED lights as the authentic Christmas experience. Sort of like how nearly nobody today feels like wax candles burning on the tree is the true Christmas way, and using electricity is just wrong.
Not this guy again. Urrrrr.
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Looooooooove Alec’s channels!
Bubble lights or GTFO.
I like my primary monocolour leds as they are
The real frustrating thing is the LEDs equivalents are at least supposed to last longer.. but nearly every strand I’ve bought dies after a season of use, in a way that makes it very hard to find which bulbs need replacing.
How was the glass colored in the old version of the lights, and why couldn’t that be done with the led version?
Our problem is that we straight up aren’t having any luck finding good warm white led lights. The ones that are marked “warm” still look like a sickly greenish color. I also notice a “flicker” with the led ones that make me dizzy.
Here is an idea for this. Buy lights that have LEDs with a clear cover. Use the clear cover to make a 2 part silicon mold and cast new covers with the color you want. If you make a mold with 25 spaces you can easily make a 4 color 100 light set. The hardest part is the mold, but once you have it, the rest is easy.
I had no concept that the common LEDs were bad, but him describing the reason why makes it so clear that the muted colour ones are way better!
Light bulbs are a literal curse of tyrannical oppression tearing apart the profound blackness of the universe. The shadows providing no escape from the unimaginable vastness of human consumerism. It pains me to say the intensity of the illumination is burning out our eyes. Casting a dark veil over the enormity of Sinterklaas’s vestige. A frightening grotesque poetry of egomania and roaring lunacy. A being created from the chaos, overwhelming hostility and insanity, of our collective consciousness.
The normally docile Rudolf and Günther in the coming weeks, will furiousasticaly beat themselves against the Northern Poles within the Sunset Dorf Wut Hütte. Summoning the vile indifference of what is deeply embedded in our souls. Finished with their laborious production of wooden triangles and squares for the kinder. They listen to electronic kosmische musik and scream in madness. While the faint echos of this obscene catastrophe begin to envelope us and swallow us whole.
Grown up Eddie Munster shakes fist at cloud – new thing bad.
Ignoring that the paint would fleck off the old bulbs and they all started to just be white after a season or so.
The exception being the big fat incandescent bulbs that were good for keep citrus trees warm in the winter. Otherwise old bulbs can gtfo
That is my main problem. They are bright and barely last more than a few seasons. We want to invest in those LEDs that stay up all year and are low profile. That way we can adjust the brightness, color, pattern, etc, but mainly to save me from having to climb up on the roof each year. Yet I am hesitant to go through with it because I feel like it will be more of a pain to pull a strip off the house if half the lights fail. Neighbor across from me put up a bunch of LED Icicle lights. His house shines brighter than the Griswolds with half the coverage area lol.
I just bought some Tru-Tone’s and they are AMAZING. It def would be awesome if they could do the small string lights, too!