I feel silly asking this, but I’m trying to find simple replacements for this type of bulb - an LED mini light. (The tag says it needs 2 volt .04 watt or 3.4 volt .068 watt if that matters). But nothing I’m finding online (as far as replacement bulbs) matches this type of bulb. For replacements, this length of bulb seems to be incandescent or for LED replacements they are the squat little nub bulbs. Am I being crazy? Or looking in the wrong place?

There are a lot of cool videos of houses with fancy animated Christmas lights, but you don't have to make it so complicated to have something nice. I have three ESP32s running on my house. Each one powered by its own basic plugin. Two are WLED controllers and one I believe is a USB WLED controller. Each controller is in a cheap food storage container to keep the rain and snow out. The lights are 5v WS2811 pixels just stringed together and the connections protected by grifters tape. No power injection. The lights are attached with basic gutter clips I got from Target.

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Home decorators christmas tree problems I have a 3 year home decorators collection led christmas tree. Expensive. It worked perfectly the first and second year. This year out of the box I have issues with some of the lights. This tree has a remote that allows different colors, ie all white, green, blue, etc... plus combinations of colors like red and white, green and white, etc... as well as multicolor, and blinking etc... So there are areas of lights that are not the colors they should be, for example the picture I attached should all be red and white, yet these small sections are whatever they want to be it seems. Even setting it on multicolor these areas blink, or change color over time. No idea how to fix, I have checked connections along the strand making sure all the connections are tight, as well as the ones that go into the metal center tube. It's really frustrating paying a lot for something only to last a few years. Just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them and if they found any solution. Home depot won't help and neither will their home decorators collection help line. They literally didn't know what I was talking about. Tyia!

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I have tru tone bulbs. I love them.

Should I take them out individually then take down the light strings?

Or do I keep the bulbs in and just roll it all up

2024 December lights, not nearly as nice as most of you but we like it. Merry Christmas and happy holidays all!

We have an older Balsam Hill tree that has 7 limbs that no longer light up.
I have replaced all the bulbs, but at base of tree near trunk, we have 3-4 bulbs/shunts with a different style bulb. These bulbs have a white base where rest of tree has green base. I have tried removing them and they will not budge. They do not pull out like the green based bulbs.

I called Balsam Hill, and they said they were likely master bulbs, but my lights are not gray like the rep said.
They were not helpful at all once they found out the tree was out of warranty.

Does anyone know how to remove and replace these white based bulbs? Appreciate any help.

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I like to channel my inner Clark Griswold each year and the kiddos love it!

Too warm for snow but it now feels like Christmas.

How much should I expect to spend per foot to install good quality lights - about 150 feet two peaks about 25 feet off the ground.

It’s never easy, but I love our Christmas lights and now that 2 of our 3 kids are in college, they love coming home to this! 🎄🎅🏼🤶🏼

I am using FPP to build a celebration show for new vehicle purchases. We want a customer to be able to push a button to start the show, just to make it a little interactive. But we want to prevent people from just randomly starting it, so I was thinking of putting a button at the sales desk that we can press and will arm the celebration button for a set amount of time. Probably something like 3 minuets, and only allow one celebration.

I know how to start the show with a button, I was thinking of having a script triggered by the arm button that sets a file with a time and date that's the expiration, and then the celebration button starts a script that checks if that file exists and if the time has past. If the file exists and has not expired then it deletes the file and starts the celebration.

Just wondering if anyone else has tried something like this or has a better method.

As the title says, the strand we use for our Christmas Tree died. It's sad, I know. 10 years in and my $15 strand finally gave out. My issue, though, is that I can't find a good replacement. Most strings of LEDs hurt my eyes so I use incandescent bulbs. Other than the warm white color, the reason I love this strand is the setting that allows it to very slowly fade in and out a few bulbs at a time. So, most of the lights are on and then over the course of several seconds a few of the bulbs will slowly fade out while a few more will slowly fade in. It will stay that way for a small bit and then do some more. It's a very gentle mode, is relaxing to watch, and doesn't distract even when it's next to the TV.

Well, when we set up the tree and plugged in the lights they didn't turn on. No setting does anything. Maybe it's the control box, I don't know. It looks like every bulb is blown. Not most, every single one. Fuses look fine and show resistance on my multi-meter. I don't know how to diagnose these sets with it, though.

I went to the various local stores (Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Lowes) and none of the strands I've found do what this one does. There are LED strands that twinkle, I've seen ones that fade all of the bulbs at the same time, but none that I saw have a slow, gentle fade in and out a few at a time. None of the incandescent strands do anything other than just stay on. I've bought 2 more regular strands to pull the 200 bulbs out and replace them all but now I'm seeing it has a couple of bulbs that have a different shape with a notch so this may not work.

Does anyone know if this strand can still be purchased anywhere? Or does anyone know of a set that has the slow fade in and out like we want? It can be LED if it's a warm, white light but I can't handle it if the bulbs have a low refresh rate. That's why I gravitate to incandescent.