DiyLightAnimation
Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: zwiller on January 12, 2011,
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My big lots has these cheap. I am a bit concerned with the bulb count. I have not seen this bulb ct before. I understand they could properly make them this way, it just weird. Maybe I could test? Anyone have any thoughts? Greatly appreciated!
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Just about every set that I have seen with this count was some type of controlled or animated light set.
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No controller or anything. These look, smell, feel like 100 ct incans. They are 50cents now. Could these be 4 sections of 35ct? Don't know if better or worse. Worried these guys will burn out much sooner than the 100cts.
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If the are only 50 cents a box, who cares if they don't last as long as others. I have 35 count strings on some light posts that I made that are going on 10 years old now and the strings still light.
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I hear ya. I just don't want to waste time building stuff with them for them to fail in an hour. Gonna grab em and give a few a test. Thanks tbone, hopefully they are the same mfg as your 35 cts!
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At $0.50 cents a box I would even buy the pre-animated ones ;)
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Went Big Lots on the lunch hour and picked these up. There were originally $4 marked down 75% to $1, NOT 50 cents. Sorry if I got anybody overexcited. I thought it was still a good deal.
BTW they are 4 x 35 count.
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the bulbs "should" be 3.5v getting about 3.4v from the cord
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Instructions said strand is 62.4W (.52A) so at 140ct the bulbs are .45W per bulb. Plugged in a set an they appear as bright and constructed the same as typical 100cts.
I will "try" to keep the replacement bulbs stored properly labeled. At this time I vison them being split into two 70ct sections for a small to medium arch with 8 channels.