Holiday light color trials 2021

The folks at https://www.christmaslightsetc.com claim that their products don't flicker. - "Full wave rectified technology ensures a flicker-free light.

There was mention in the start of this video about the lights only providing a partial rectification on the AC current running to the leds, causing the 60hz flicker you see. Is there some resources y’all could point me to to fully rectify these sumbitches

Ethan Doak

Green nail polish is always, always hard to come by!

Jennifer Holz

Hi Alec! Here in Hungary I grew up with this type of christmas light: https://retronom.hu/node/27355 as I was googling it, this image came up and for a fraction of a second I felt like I'm a 10 year old kid again, they are just so special for me. Sadly, as an adult I no longer enjoy christmas but when I was a kid I was all over it. This type of incandescent bulb (I believe the socket size is E10) is THE christmas light for me. I found this too, but I can't get a good image how they looked like close up while they are powered: https://furdancs.blog.hu/2014/12/16/hagyomanyos_karacsonyfaizzo_vs_230v_287 Ohh, I found one where they are lit! I love these still! https://nlc.hu/meghitt-percek/20191210/retro-karacsonyfa-disz/

Dukefazon

My fiance doesn't understand my hatred for blue LED Christmas lights. We were looking for a tree tonight and he wanted one with multicolored lights. I felt my eyes burning. I'm so glad someone gets it.

I have to know who did that outro music. I love the jazzy covers of Christmaholiday tunes so much and that one was just fun!

Sean Hearrell

Those Tru Tone lights are beautiful, but holy shit biscuits batman the price is just absurd. 25 bucks for the strand, that doesnt come with any lights, and 40 bucks for the lights that go into it? 65 bucks for a short 45 foot strand of lights? Thats like 2-3 times the price of an incandescent set of the same length! You can get a 100foot set of incandescents for almost the same price, too.

Honorary Octopus

I thought the shift to monochromatic LED's was a good one. I even like the blue! But I support anyone who wants to be mad about stuff on the internet.

Circuitmike

two words: remote phosphor. If you don't know what that means, in the digital film-making (yay mixed technologies) world the hotness is all about UV LED's that light up a phosphor that lights up your shoot with more than one wavelength of light (this is also how florescent bulbs work.) LED string lights that are UV and have phosphors for their color output would be really much of an improvement, broad spectrum and less flicker. 'course, how many times did you hear someone complain about florescent light flicker? Ok not perfect, but better?

Sierra Mistystep

Always happy to see this series come back, these are how I found your channel and seeing someone else cares this much about ugly LED lights made me feel so understood. You mentioned picking up both strings so you could try swapping the caps, did you have any luck with that? I'm wondering if maybe the Walmart ones are looser than the Target ones.

Yakkers

Thank you for uploading your teleprompter script (and maybe more?), not just allowing YouTube to try auto-generation. My computer's sound card is out today so I had to watch with captions. Thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks! Glad that no effort November is closing, though. :-)

Benjamin Rippel

Just ordered some of the TruTone C7s. I've always thought the main purpose of holiday lighting is to be pretty, and energy efficiency is secondary to that. Our Christmas display is almost entirely retro C7/C9 lights and incandescent minis with only a handful of LEDs. The whole yard draws around 9kW across six dedicated 20A circuits. Looking forward to seeing how these compare to the classics.

Emily Elam

will they run off my USB3 port ;-)

Galen Thurber

pellet gun - blue LEDs just saying ;-)

Galen Thurber

bulb tester, use an old 3.4V phone / cordless pack connected to an old socket

Galen Thurber

replace with UV to kill covid ;-)

Galen Thurber

ah, i like white / beige wire

Galen Thurber

orange nail polish

Galen Thurber

blue is for guitar amps ;-(

Galen Thurber

cant someone make a full wave rectifier for them

Galen Thurber

So many thing I agree with you, so many things I disagree :-P. For decorative lighting, I actually like the pure colors of monochromatic LEDs, but I agree that too much blue hurts the eye (and manufacturers are using much too much blue LEDs nowadays, sometimes I even open up new devices just to replace the blue LEDs with red or orange ones...) But if you want to have a cosy feeling with just decorative light, yes, then monochromatic light sucks of course...

MrHammond

Ahh, the Christmas traditions continue.

Justin Tokke

I'm from 240-Land, was born in the mid 80s and I can't remember having those. Great video. Now I'm wondering if our LED strings are better rectified because 50hz blinking would be even more noticeable than 60hz.

Magnus Köhler

What I don't miss about the incadescent lights is having to swap them outdoors in the freezing winter :) Great video!

Jonas

New TC tag line"Come for the silliness, stay for the tech!"

Irisarc

I remember the late 60s and the painted incandescent house lights with their soft tempera colors. Oh to go back...

lohphat

Finally, something useful!

Dan ''Spiffy'' Neuman