I just got an order in last week from Ray and they were better filled where the wires come out than my original order and I got excited. But upon testing I had more problemw with the nodes themselves. On my original order back when you could first order them, I only had about 3 nodes that the colors were a little off where you could only tell on white or one of the yellow or fusia type colors. This was 3 nodes on 800 node order. This time on a 300 node order each string had 1 or 2 bad nodes that either caaused the rest of the string to not light or to stay on and such. If you pulled a little on the wires they would sometimes pop right out of the node. Ray rushed me out replacements right away.