Buzzing is better than “smouldering and smoking”, which is what mine did. Count yourself lucky.
PS I’ve gone for ‘other’
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[Misc] What are your Christmas tree lights doing?
- Thread starter Bozza
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Buzzing is better than “smouldering and smoking”, which is what mine did. Count yourself lucky.
PS I’ve gone for ‘other’
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Just standard colour LED lights on the Christmas tree, no flashing or anything - same with the ones around the fireplace. The ones on the willow outside do all the flashing and that and have a timer thing to switch themselves off and only cost £4.00 for a string of 50
edit: although the ones around the fireplace might not be LED, now I think of it. They are multi-coloured though.
Yes, I have some battery blue lights on the corkscrew box on the lawn. 6 hours working and 18 hours off. I think they were about £4.
Nottseagull
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This happened at my mother's house but luckily I was there because she couldn't smell the smouldering. They were tungsten filament though; LEDs can't do that.... can they?
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Hungry Joe
SINNEN
Slowly getting brighter, then slowly fading, a bit like my life.
Mine were filament too. Not being an expert, I’d be reluctant to be too prescriptive, but my opinion is that, no, LED bulbs can’t smoulder. But the circuit board in the controller could. But you’d have to be really, really unlucky. Unless they were made in China, of course. Which they all are.
She’ll be fine. Ish. Probably.
pearl
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Sorrel
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No flashing for me; not having that in my home.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Quite how my house hasn't burnt down I'm unsure.
Tree has 4 sets of assorted flashing and static lights running from a 4 gang socket.
Fireplace has 6 'scenes' of those plastic villages with lights in them. That's 2 x 4 gang that join another 4 gang that goes into the wall
Window has 4 plastic things. Another 4 gang.
Kitchen has another small tree and some wire boxes, all with lights. Yep, another 4 gang.
Outside. So there are 10 sets of lights running from two mains sockets using three 4 gang.
And if that's not enough, she lights candles in the evening.
Being a little savvy I've checked everything and put auto cut-outs on the external sockets but this place lights up at 4pm when they all come on.
Tree has 4 sets of assorted flashing and static lights running from a 4 gang socket.
Fireplace has 6 'scenes' of those plastic villages with lights in them. That's 2 x 4 gang that join another 4 gang that goes into the wall
Window has 4 plastic things. Another 4 gang.
Kitchen has another small tree and some wire boxes, all with lights. Yep, another 4 gang.
Outside. So there are 10 sets of lights running from two mains sockets using three 4 gang.
And if that's not enough, she lights candles in the evening.
Being a little savvy I've checked everything and put auto cut-outs on the external sockets but this place lights up at 4pm when they all come on.
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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I clicked the wrong one, I was guessing as lights were off. Now they are on I know they are in a sequence of flashing, non flashing etc.
The tree looks awesome, as it does every year. It is full of many different baubles from all around the world. Wherever we go, we go in search, a part of the holiday ritual.
The tree looks awesome, as it does every year. It is full of many different baubles from all around the world. Wherever we go, we go in search, a part of the holiday ritual.
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Something else because I don't have a tree in the first place.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Only outdoor tree and lights.....but grossly OTT. They go through the whole 'look at me and my house' routine. They're colour coded, blue and white. They look fantastic and everyone is happy to see them.
portslade seagull
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Just turned them on much to the annoyance of Mrs Humbug who thinks it's all a waste of time
The ones on the tree are generally static. But when everybody else has headed off to bed and most of the room lights are switched off and it is just me and the last embers of the fire burning in the grate, I sometimes indulge myself and switch them to gently twinkling, if only to extract maximum vfm from the seeemingly endless array of display possibilities...
We also have lights wrapped around the timber beams in the living room but these are always static as anything else is too distracting and reflects in the tv screen.
Of course, all this is negated if my 7-year old son is left alone in the room for anything longer than 10 seconds as he switches the lights to what he calls "bonkers" - a migraine-inducing rapid flashing sequence
We also have lights wrapped around the timber beams in the living room but these are always static as anything else is too distracting and reflects in the tv screen.
Of course, all this is negated if my 7-year old son is left alone in the room for anything longer than 10 seconds as he switches the lights to what he calls "bonkers" - a migraine-inducing rapid flashing sequence
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- Jan 3, 2012
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At the moment they are still sitting in their box in the loft.
pearl
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We have a range of different settings for a range of different lights.
