The standard LEDs you buy at all the regular stores are still half-wave, so they have that 60hz flicker...you can buy full-wave sets online (certainly better but not totally flicker free). They're allot more expensive, not worth the expense to me (I buy most of my stuff cheap in the after Christmas sales). If I wanted I could convert my half-wave to sets to full-wave (not hard to do, just time consuming)
They can (and do) make truly flicker-free LED sets, but that means adding a capacitor, which makes the set non-flashable & non-dimmable so most "light people" wouldn't want them.
I like that the blue is so 'blue' , but I do agree its not really xmas-ish. They also make actual blacklight LEDs too.
I don't so much go all-out, especially compared to the people in that Christmas-lights group I mentioned...
their displays put mine to shame .lol. - think of the guy you saw on the news, that's exactly the type of thing they do
. Actually allot of them are going a level above -- With the new generation of RGB lights, now think of a house all outlined in lights where you can control every bulb individually to be any color & any brightness... Same for trees in the yard too. (these lights are flicker free since they run on low-voltage DC).
I'll see if I can find some of their YouTube videos sometime when my other computer is on.
I'm just using a old and very basic computer controlled setup, it can't do all the fancy things, or do music...but it works for me
I still go to their meetups just because the stuff they have is so cool & really interesting. (even though its way too costly for me to even consider buying those lights)
I run my stuff from 5pm (or even a bit before since its basically dark by 5 here) to 9pm .. starting thanksgiving night, then in the last week or so before Christmas I change the 'lights off' setting to 10 pm. Allot of people go later, especially on weekends. I don't want to annoy the neighbors with lights flashing late into the night :lol:
For inside I've got multiple fake trees - what I call my 'mini forest' (gotta love those final 90% off sales), and I do each with its own color of lights - pretty much every color of the spectrum (all LEDs otherwize I simply couldn't do it).
I would assume that once it gets below zero those flasher bulbs wouldn't work?? I should try that in the winter?
Like you I like to go driving around looking at lights.