Comments retrosurf has made

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