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I thought those christmas lights had bee replaced by led strips.
by swah 12y ago
I thought those christmas lights had bee replaced by led strips.
- _almosnow 12y agoEven LEDs need electricity, and electricity can be delivered to them serially or in parallel too.
- teraflop 12y agoBut LEDs have much lower failure rates than incandescent bulbs, and when they do fail, they're likely to fail closed rather than open. So this kind of trick shouldn't be necessary.
- mindslight 12y agoPiercing blue, icy white, and unfocusing violet aren't so inviting on a cold winter's night. Black body 4 life.
- copperx 12y agoWhat's the problem with coloring the lens?
- sokoloff 12y agoLEDs emit a limited number of wavelengths of light. Incandescent lamps emit a broad spectrum of light. Filters (colored lens) can knock out certain colors, allowing others to pass. Filters cannot add colors that aren't there to begin with. You can't just filter a monochromatic light into another color. Filtering LEDs doesn't work as straightforwardly as your incandescent-based intuition would lead you to believe.
- jacquesm 12y agoWidth of the emitted spectrum.
- robin_reala 12y agoIf you’re going to do it properly you’d actually attach candles to your tree, although this is slightly riskier (I’ve been woken and run out of the house by my mum in the past while my dad attempted to put out a flaming branch).