LED Tree lights?

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Holiday Joy

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Just curious -- how many of you use LED lights for your trees, and what type?

I see that they're supposed to last a lot longer, burn much cooler and save energy to boot.

I just bought 200 multicolored, faceted C7 bulbs for our tree. They're shaped more like the old style Christmas tree lights from my childhood. I know it's not enough lights to do a 7 foot tree, but I thought I'd layer in my regular mini lights from the last few years. Then, if I like the LED's, I could buy more next year.
 

HouseElf

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We will use a combination of large and small muli-coloured LED lights (our tree is about 8 ft - live). My husband really loves them and he won't bug me to turn off the lights because "the tree will dry out" :huh: from the heat of the bulbs!

Its a win win! :grin:
 

cipalla

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we also use the bigger LED multi lights for our inside tree and love them for the safety reasons. Not too into using them outside though, they just give off a different color.
 

jackfrosty

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We bought the outside ones and I've never been that happy with them. We were told they looked more like Halloween than Christmas lights(ghostly glow!) Now you can buy Warm White -I haven't seen them yet but they are supposed to look a little bit more natural.
 

Holiday Joy

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Just started stringing the new LED lights on our family room tree -- size c6. Larger than my little regular Christmas lights but smaller than the 'big' ones. Not sure if I like them yet, though.

Has anyone mixed LEDs with regular lights, or do the colors/coolness of the LED colors fight too much with the regular lights, if you know what I mean?

I still have to play with these lights a bit. Because the colors are bright and the bulbs are bigger, I won't need nearly as many lights on my tree this year.