HOLIDAY TIME 100 LED
MULTICOLOR LIGHTS
Holiday Time 100 LED Multicolor Lights, retail $5.96 (www.wallmart.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 12-22-19
Tired of getting out the Christmas lights every year and finding they don't work because half of the bulbs are broken?
Tired of the endless chore of hunting down & changing bulbs as they go out over the duration of the holidays?
Do you live in California or Washington and pay so much for power you can no longer afford to put up lights anymore?
Then these are for you: A fairly ordinary looking set of Christmas lights that have multicolored LEDs with "mini rice-style" covers instead of fragile glass blubs.
They run cool and the bulbs never pop, and the whole set uses just a few watts of your precious electricity.
Holiday Time 100 LED Multicolor Lights are a type of LED indoor/outdoor Christmas lights that need no transformer (they plug directly into 110-130VAC).
What I noted immediately was that the photo on the packaging materials looked as though it were a photo of incandescent lights, but when I fired them up, they were LED and the die (the LED's light-emitting region) is placed in such a manner that actually makes it look like a filament in incandescent bulbs!
SIZE
Use these like you would use ordinary Christmas light sets.
They have the same fused plug as your existing lights, and the "end-to-end" feature that lets you plug additional sets (up to 45 sets according to the packaging materials!) into the end of the strings, rather than at the outlet.
Since the bulbs never need replacing, you can forget about the annual ritual of "find the broken bulb" on the Christmas light strings
as you unpack the Christmas boxes to decorate each year. You know, the broken or burnt out bulb that makes the whole set go dark, so you get all pissed off and eventually slam the defective strings into a garbage can and go out to buy new ones.
For most people, this is an annual ritual; though if you're lucky you only do this about every other year.
That won't happen with this set. Just remove them from the box year after year and start decorating - the Christmas tree, window & door frames, the garland atop the mantle, tabletop settings, or just hang the suckers off your bedroom or dorm room ceiling for that special holiday feel all year 'round.
All you need to do to feed them is plug them into any ordinary household (United States) 110 to 130 volts AC 60Hz receptacle.
Since they are not battery-powered, I don't have to tell you which part to remove and gently place in front of the fireplace which would subsequently set up a Christmas accident and then rather emphatically tell you not to.
How unique are they from other LED Christmas light sets? Let me count the ways...
- No transformers. They plug right into a 110VAC receptacle with an ordinary fused Christmas light plug.
- End-to-end connectivity. These have a plug at both ends for more decorating versatility; you can plug additional sets onto the end of the string,
rather than having to start each one at an outlet like other LED Christmas sets would have you do.
- Compatible with your existing miniature Christmas light sets.
- Rated for both indoor and outdoor use.
This product is meant to be used as a set of Christmas lights, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused; so I won't try to flush them down the toilet, bash them against a steel rod or against the corner of a concrete stair, let my landlady's Dalmation puppies or adult doggos spring a leak (uranate), run over them with a 450lb Quicklie Pulse 6 electric wheelchair, or perform other indecencies that a regular flashlight might have to go through.
So this section of the web page will be significantally more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
The colors of lights in this set are red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.
Power consumption of this set is a miserly 4.80 watts, versus the ~40 watts used by a set of 100 mini incandescent lights.
Photograph of the set, illuminated of course.
Photograph of the set deployed on our Christmas tree.
The top half of the tree has these lights.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this light set.
Narrowband spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 640nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 629.340nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ht100-r.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the orange LEDs in this light set.
Narrowband spectrographic analysis of the orange LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 600nm and 625nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 614.360nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ht100-o.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the yellow LEDs in this light set.
Narrowband spectrographic analysis of the yhellow LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 580nm and 600nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 592.910nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ht100-y.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this light set.
Narrowband spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 505nm and 535nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 515.800nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ht100-g.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this light set.
Narrowband spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in this light set; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 445nm and 465nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 451.180nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at ht100-b.txt
USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.
TEST NOTES:
Test set was snagged at a Wall*Mart store in Fresno CA. USA on 11-14-19.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Uses LEDs which operate much cooler and for much longer than incandescents
Decent intensity without being "too much" or "too little"
The "bulbs" actually ***LOOK*** like incandescent mini bulbs!
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
MANUFACTURER: (Unknown) for Wall*Mart
PRODUCT TYPE: Holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: Mini-"rice"-style LED
No. OF LAMPS: 100 (20 ea. red, orange, yellow, green, blue)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: None
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: N/A
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND MT. DEW ICE-RESISTANT: Weather-resistant
SUBMERSIBLE: PÈRE NOËL CHIANT PAR UNE CHEMINÉE, NON!!! 
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: Total length 24.50 feet (7.47M); lighted length 22.60 feet (6.89M)
WEIGHT: 335g (11.82oz)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Cambodia
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
(This is a provisional rating; if I note any issues after using them for awhile, off come some stars.)
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