Intellashine Color-Changing Christmas Lights, retail $TBA
Manufactured by Carpenter Decorating (www.carpenterdecorating.com)
Last updated 11-05-19
These eye-popping things weren't even available this past holiday season (late-2004) - very few trees (as few as two) were decorated with them this past holiday season. Expect them to become available after Thanksgiving 2005.
This is a set of 8 C7 1/2 style bulbs; of which four change color by themselves. The entire set runs from a 12 volts DC power supply, which was included with the evaluation set.
This set (which I believe is a prototype set) came with 8 lamps; expect production sets to come with 25 lamps.
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To use this set, just string them up as you would an ordinary C7 1/2 light set, and plug it into any standard US 110-130 volts AC receptacle as you would an ordinary C7 1/2 light set.
The lamps in this set run cool though, and are safer for use on natural Christmas trees than incandescent C7 1/2 sets are.
This product is designed to be AC powered, so I do not need to tell you how to change batteries.
One of the bulbs under approximately 3x magnification (on a 1152x864 screen).
Since this is a Christmas light set and not a flashlight, this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight. However, since these bulbs do not use fragile filaments and they have durable PMMA outer shells, they won't give you any guff regardess of how roughly you manhandle them.
***VERY IMPORTANT!!!*** DO NOT under any circumstances screw these bulbs into a standard 110-120 volts AC string of C7 1/2 lamps. They WILL fail at once, and possibly quite spectacularly so, if this is done. You don't want rats or flies...I mean...you don't want an unwanted fire.
From the person who sent me these lights, comes this snippet:
I was playing with those C7 LED Christmas lights and I found that each lamp will run nicely off of a 9 volt battery. The center tip of the lamp's base is positive and the threaded portion of the base is negative. You can lean a lamp directly across the battery terminals for testing.
You can test the bulbs this way if you suspect there might be something wrong with the set. If you get the polarity wrong, you're probably SOL. At least with the color-changing lamps, you might be. You might squeak by on the solid color lamps though, but don't bet the farm on this one.
On a 9V battery, the smaller terminal is (+) positive, and the larger terminal is (-) negative.
Four of the eight lamps in this set have electronics built into them that cause the colors to change by themselves. Some of the lamps appear to do a three-way color swap, while others have this nifty fade routine.
The solid color lamps have a small patch of color marked on their bases to indicate the color of the lamp when lit; the RGB ones are not marked in this way.
Intellashines are water-resistant when installed on proper commercial lighting strings.
Photograph of the light set illuminated on a desk.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (white) in this set.
Same as above; different spectrometer & software used.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (blue) in this set.
Same as above; different spectrometer & software used.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (green) in this set.
Same as above; different spectrometer & software used.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED (yellow) in this set.
Same as above; different spectrometer & software used.
Spectrographic analysis of one of the multicolor LEDs in this set displaying "white".
USB2000 spectrometer (for the color charts) graciously donated by P.L.
Video clip on YourTube showing the Intellashines doing their "thing".
This clip is approximately 6.6 megabytes (6,944,516 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
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I cannot provide it in other formats, so please do not ask.
You might be able to hear the TV game show "Family Feud" playing in the background.
You may be able to infer (correctly too, I might add) that I watch GSN quite regularly.
Video on YourTube showing the product changing colors.
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TEST NOTES:
Test sample was sent by a fan of the website, and was received on 12-15-04. It was placed on the Christmas tree at once, which is why the evaluation did not appear on my website until now (01-05-05).
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
CONS:
MANUFACTURER: Carpenter Decorating
PRODUCT TYPE: LED holiday light set
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: 8 (Evaluation set only) or 25 (Production set)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: N/A
BEZEL: LEDs enclosed in transparent faceted C7 1/2 shells
BATTERY: N/A
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Yes (see above)
SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
ACCESSORIES: Power supply unit
WARRANTY: Unknown/TBA
PRODUCT RATING:
Intellashine Color-Changing Christmas Lights *
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