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The History of Christmas Lights
- juiced 8y agoCan't visit the website from the NL, blocked by Sucuri.
- jamexcb 8y agoSame from Portugal
- coldlestat 8y agoSame from France.
- dublinben 8y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20181213114048/https://www.christmasdesigners.com/blog/from-edison-to-led-the-complete-history-of-christmas-lights/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181213114048/https://www.chris...
- sneakernets 8y agoHow long until all Christmas lights are programmable?
- madengr 8y agoThat article jolted a childhood memory of a bubble light. Now I want to buy some. Putting candles on Christmas trees seems crazy. Those things burn like crazy.
- secabeen 8y agoI still have bubble lights on my tree. My girls love them.
- emilfihlman 8y agoApparently the owner of the website has some grudge or a had a fit and is blocking quite a lot of countries. Or it's a GDPR ban, so fuck my EU.
- gerdesj 8y ago"Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall If you are the site owner (or you manage this site), please whitelist your IP or if you think this block is an error please open a support ticket and make sure to include the block details (displayed in the box below), so we can assist you in troubleshooting the issue." Ominously: "Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator." I know the UK isn't everyone's cup of tea but this is a bit over the top 8) Where are you from (P)?
- tomatotomato37 8y agoThey're an American only retailer. If you go through their order process for some random lights you find the country selector only has the US in it
- doitLP 8y agoI simply can’t stand LED Christmas lights. Not only do they have a very different color temperature, but the refresh rate is so low that they appear to move when you look at them and it’s quite hard to focus. If anyone has suggestions on higher hertz and lower Kelvin LED lights that look similar to incandescent I’d appreciate it.
- swebs 8y agoYou're buying bargain bin lights that have an insufficient/nonexistent decoupling capacitor. I really can't tell you which brands to look out for since 90% of them are the same Chinese garbage. You'd have to look at display models in the store to find good ones. Either shake your head from side to side or wave your open hand in front of the lights to test if there's a strobe effect. Expensive LEDs like those sold for smarthomes generally have better circuitry. If you're feeling adventurous, you could solder a capacitor in series yourself. RGB lights will look bad when producing white light, but they also sell strips that come with RGB as well as a warm white diode.
- doitLP 8y ago> Either shake your head from side to side or wave your open hand in front of the lights to test if there's a strobe effect. My method is filming any suspected bulb (not just Xmas lights) in slo-mo for a second and watching if they flash on playback. However, most I can tell out of hand without resorting to slo-mo. If there’s something untrustworthy about the light emitted, it’s an LED.
- sparkpeasy 8y agoThis is what the pros use- https://www.christmasdesigners.com/100-light-2800k-warm-white-5-mm-wide-angle-conical-led-christmas-lights.html https://www.christmasdesigners.com/100-light-2800k-warm-whit... They are full-wave rectified so they don't flicker, and have an interesting semi-directional output them gives them visual interest when draped on the strand that brings to mind old-style incandescent bulbs. A warning, though--these are way too bright to use indoors.
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