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  bad idea from the getgo

  Replacing incandescents for LEDs for christmas
  lights is wrong it at least 3 different ways.

  First, the thing that kills most christmas lights
  is the wiring, not the bulbs. After about 5 years,
  the connections to the bulbs corrode or loosen,
  and repair is impossible. Putting an LED that can
  last 30,000 hours on a light string that is good
  for at most 5 years is a waste.

  Next, look at the waste stream generated by LED
  based christmas lights. LEDs are made of
  gallium arsenide (along with some copper, and
  plastic, and maybe a little lead or tin). Light
  bulbs are made of tungsten, glass, aluminum or
  brass, and iron. I suspect that it is safer to
  discard a light bulb than to discard an LED.

  Finally, replacing working strings of bulbs with
  another working string of bulbs encourages
  consumer based wasted, as has been pointed out
  by all the previous commenters.
  On Umbra on LED holiday lights posted 3 years, 11 months ago 5 Responses