Driving through shopping centers during the holidays, it’s easy to see that lights along retail rooflines and trees wrapped with lights make magic. This Panera Bread installation shows the impact of warm white LED light bulbs and a spool of C9 cord. We really appreciated receiving these customer photos showing a great look for our…
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Get This Look: Accenting roofline peaks with LED bulbs
A classic installation along a roofline of C9 LED bulbs and cords. See a suggested materials list and tips for installation.
What are SMD bulbs? SMD vs DIP LEDs
LED? DIP? SMD? E-I-E-I-O? It’s a farmyard of acronyms out there when it comes to LEDs and Christmas lights and hopefully, this article will shed a little light on what these terms mean as folks plan Christmas light displays. Applying direct current to specific crystals to produce light was discovered in the early 1900’s…
Lighting up a Nativity
Just outside of Oklahoma City, a church has a large wire frame nativity (the Angel is 10 feet tall!) sitting in storage due to failing incandescent lights. Christmas Light Source to the rescue! They retrofitted the nativity with C7 LEDs and like what they see. “We have been making great progress retrofitting our wire frames…
What is the best cord for C9 LED bulbs?
What is the best cord for LED C9 bulbs? Short Answer: C9 cords with 6 -inch spacing are tailored to work with LED bulbs along rooflines and walkways resulting in maximum impact and intensity. The Long Answer: We kept hearing customer questions like: I want my LED bulbs closer together than 12 inches, have you…
Do LED Twinkle Bulbs Really Twinkle?
I received this question today about LED twinkle bulbs and thought I’d share it since you might have the question as well! I’ve grown up decorating my Christmas tree with C7 twinkle lights. This year, we want to replace our bulbs with LED bulbs. I want a variety of colors and love the twinkle effect…
Choosing between LED Christmas light strings and LED Bulbs and Cords
We receive questions about the pro and cons of pre-wired LED light strings and individually purchased LED bulbs and cords on a fairly regular basis. This video will help you as you make this decision as you decorated for your next party or for the Christmas season. Do you have a favorite approach? Share your thoughts…
Our lights in action: Adding light to a barn!
Using Lights to Add Sparkle to a Barn! Thank you to Doug and Linda for sending us photos of how they are lighting their barn with LED lights. They don’t wait for Christmas for the fun but keep them up to make everything look cheery during the off-season as well. The lights in this photo…
LED Bulbs not for Dynamic Displays
Most of the seasoned veterans already know that the current generation of retrofit LED Christmas light bulbs (not the pre-lamped sets) are not suitable for choreographed displays but I thought it merited a mention here. This is due to engineering differences between the sets and bulbs – primarily related to the way the voltage is…