Trevor Wilson said:
**Indeed. They will last longer. MUCH longer. Most sane people buy LED
Christmas lights. These have an almost indefinite life, better colour
rendition (particularly blue) and consume far less energy. My most recently
purchased set (unfortunately purchased at the post-Christmas sale, last
year - I will be checking any future purchases immediately) had the last
four green ones out. Some genius in China had installed one of the LEDs
'round the wrong way. A quick fix and the lights will last longer than I
will. I have absolute confidence that the lights will last many hundreds of
years. Incandescent Christmas lights are so last century.
I'm sure that you are correct. LEDs are less likely to fail, The problem
is that their introduction seems to have coincided with a different
'fashion' in the colours of the lights. Instead of having a good variety
of red, green, blue. orange. purple, white etc, a lot of the new sets of
lights are all one colour (usually garish blue or white). They have made
up for the lack of colours by having providing a lot of programmable
modes for making the lights flash (most of them in a most un-Christmassy
manor).
I have always loved Christmas lights. Although I was barely more than a
toddler, I can still remember arriving with my mother by bus in the
centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, and finding lots of Christmas lights
festooning the trees. It was the first time that they had been allowed
after WW2.
