ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area What kind of Christmas lights do you have up?

Just a white (clear bulb) candle in each of the nine front windows of my house, pine roping with mini white lights along the front porch railings and wreaths in each window with a red bow. Tree is 7.5 feet (artificial) with all white mini lights. It sounds kind of boring, but it does look pretty nice.

We are pretty conservative, in fact I complained the whole time about putting up any decorations at all since we will be out of town for Christmas anyway.

We are trying to keep with the Williamsburg Colonial theme since my house is, well, a Williamsburg Colonial.

[This message has been edited by EV607797 (edited 12-11-2006).]

Firstly, Merry Christmas to all from Central Australia.

While it seems small fry than some others I have seen, all we have is a string of coloured lights around the gutter at the front of the house. There are about 250 lamps of about 1.5 watts each that burn steady throughout the night. Not too overbearing but enough to ne noticed by the neighbors.

Right now, just one set (35 "bulbs" of outdoor LED lights. I have the set of 25 C9s alon the eave, ready to go, If I wish, and a bunch of incanescent Minilites I could put up

I am all wired up for lights (dedicated GFCI 20 with a timer and some SSR "repeaters") but we never seem to get more than a few strings of lights out there. I am really getting a lot of "bah humbug" in my old age.
I certainly can't compete with some of my neighbors who go crazy.
I really hesitate to go look around and see how that stuff is plugged in

speaking of that, reminds me of the movie, 'A Christmas Story' when Ralphie's dad had all of those cords plugged into that one outlet. What a site that was.

One word: none!
Christmas decorations are pretty tame this year, at least around here.
So far I've seen one string of white lights on a balcony railing, a grid of white lights in another place and a big pine tree with white lights in a front yard.
Compared to the kitsch atrocities I've seen in previous years that's NOTHING.
Only shops have their usual decorations.

I hang 18 sets of icicle lights (300 bulbs) on my roof and gutters and put about 500 mini lights on 2 small evergreens in the front yard.I like the look of the icicle lights, but I'm getting a little tired of pulling them off of the roof after a good wind comes through.

Last year (an probably this year) a house around the block had the end of the extension cord and 4 light strands wrapped with aluminum foil! Under two feet of snow drift! I should take a ride over there today and look...

Ian A.

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I bought an other 2 strings of 160 LED's for NZ$25 each US$18 with 8 step controller for different options.
Complete with 240 / 24 Volts transformer.
made in China but it runs perfect and the TX doesn't get very warm at all.
Also a small 24 LED string CW TX for the entrance and beautifull blue X mas stars.

As rewired already says, the deep colours from the LED's are great, especially the blue and UV colours.

I hope you don't mind me bringing this thread back up...

But for me, the answer is none, because I don't celebrate Christmas. (I don't mean to rain on the parade of those who do, just that I find it more of a nuisance than fun; certainly with all the commercialisation.)