Twinkle Light Question

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WDW Monorail

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N234MickeyMouse said:
You can make your own twinkle strings with stringers and individual twinkle bulbs. Unless you can find the 25 or 50-socket strings at your local big-box store, you'll have to order a whole spool of string from a commercial supplier. The smallest I've found is 500-feet. The good part, though, is you can make custom lengths of string that suits your purpose... just don't have too-many bulbs on the same string (< 100 per string is safe with 5 watt bulbs).

Here's links to the goods from Action Lighting, but you can find them elsewhere too:

Twinkle bulbs: http://www.actionlighting.com/c7-twinkle-christmas-bulb/
Light stringers: http://www.actionlighting.com/c7-c9-string-light-500ft-rolls/

Make sure you match the bulb type to the socket in the stringer: C7 bulb in a matching C7 socket. Same for C9--use C9 sockets. C7s are the same base as standard night lights and C9s are like what's used in fancy candelabra light fixtures--the BIG old-school type of Christmas lights.
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I have an already made set of those same twinkle bulbs. I only used the string once for Christmas a couple of years ago. I had never seen the individual C-7 or C-9 bulbs for sale but I may end up purchasing them and screwing them in to attach-on sockets that I have. I have a couple thousand feet of SPT-1 on which I can attach the bulbs anywhere I desire.
 
boo52

boo52

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I stand corrected. They were reinstalling newer LED ones this week so all hope is not lost. Don't think they are on line yet but at least they are not going away.
 
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COProgressFan

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boo52 said:
I stand corrected. They were reinstalling newer LED ones this week so all hope is not lost. Don't think they are on line yet but at least they are not going away.
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Glad to hear it. I hope they look good and look like more incandescents, rather than traditional LED's, which would be a poor fit for MSUSA.
 
Gingerbread man

Gingerbread man

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I was at Disneyland last week and I noticed in downtown Disney the trees have the"slow fade" light. They were larger size bulbs and appeared to be a C9 or C7. The strand was about 50' long but a there was only a bulb every 10' or so. I did a Google search to find the lights and it led me here.. hoping to see if we ever found a winner?
 
Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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Topic on hand - the lights.

For those wanting to create a 'homemade version'....i have had great luck with using my old original 'chaser sets' from the late 1980s/early 1990s.
This was back when the 'chasing X-mas lights' sets first became readily available to consumers.
They were quite popular and people were using them everywhere it seemed during that time period to decorate with.
Now you rarely see 'chasers'...at least, i rarely see them used now for house decorating or on trees.

Anyway, the key to these earlier versions is you had complete control over the speed of the 'chasing' effect.
You simply turned a small k n o b on a control box attached to the plug-in end of the light set and adjust the speed to your liking.
Later sets did away with this feature, and when you pushed a button or two you could only change the type of lighting effect...not the speed of said effect. ( flash, random, chase, fade in/out, steady burn, etc. )
So ya'all need to find one of these older sets with the k n o b control box and you score.

I have two large sets, both 'old style', and when you hang them in a tree with the bulbs arranged randomly ( not lined up in a row one after the other) and set them at the slowest speed they look beautiful.
Very much like the 'Main Street Twinklers' in look and feel.

G.E. is the brand name these models i use are, and they have a green control box with a large white plastic control k n o b.
No buttons....this was the 80s people, and it was k n o b s you turned to control stuff...not push buttons !
;)
The sets are 100 to 150 clear bulbs, and originally sold for $35 a piece in 1989/1990.
Yes, quite expensive back then as it still seems now..but they were the latest thing in lighting back then and considered 'high tech'.
I have had my sets since then, and they still function and have not burned out.

Most 'chasers' sold today i find to be far too fast or 'flickery' to create the same effect.
You also usually cannot control the speed of the 'chase'.
So beware.
Try eBay..or keep a look out at yard sales.
The white knobbed control box should be the giveaway it is one of the better, older 'chase' sets.

Happy hunting!
 
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unkadug

unkadug

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Can you not say the word "" ?

k n o b

since when is k n o b a dirty word?


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WondersOfLife

WondersOfLife

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What's with all of these random thread bumps??

Not saying it's a bad thing, but seems like a bunch have happened out of no where! xD


EDIT: Just realized somebody already* asked the same question.
 
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unkadug

unkadug

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WondersOfLife said:
What's with all of these random thread bumps??

Not saying it's a bad thing, but seems like a bunch have happened out of no where! xD


EDIT: Just realized somebody always asked the same question.
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So they start a new thread about the same topic and they get chastised that they didn't search for an old thread about the same topic.

Personally, I like to see the same threads resurface than to have 20 new threads about what celebrities have been spotted at WDW.
 
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WondersOfLife

WondersOfLife

Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
unkadug said:
So they start a new thread about the same topic and they get chastised that they didn't search for an old thread about the same topic.

Personally, I like to see the same threads resurface than to have 20 new threads about what celebrities have been spotted at WDW.
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Well said. d: I was just caught off guard by how many popped up at once!
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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unkadug said:
Would you prefer they start a new thread about the same topic? :eek:
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Yes, I would and the reason is that not everyone, me included always look at the date and answer questions that no one is reading and cover things that are no longer even reality. I have started to learn to check date only recently because I have been caught up in that situation. I don't even know how they find those old threads. They must have to go through thousands of thread to find one that is 6, 7 or 8 years old.
 
unkadug

unkadug

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Goofyernmost said:
Yes, I would and the reason is that not everyone, me included always look at the date and answer questions that no one is reading and cover things that are no longer even reality. I have started to learn to check date only recently because I have been caught up in that situation. I don't even know how they find those old threads. They must have to go through thousands of thread to find one that is 6, 7 or 8 years old.
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Unfortunately it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.

They find these threads by searching, which is what most people tell them to do when they start a new thread about something that has already been discussed to death.

There is a faction that want all the information in one place and another faction that can't be bothered by history and common knowledge and want new threads for everything.

(I'm not saying that you and I are in either/or faction!)
 
yensid67

yensid67

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Dredd15 said:
Lets re-open this topic ... its getting close to the Holidays, lets keep an eye out for inexpensive ways to make our trees twinkle with Fireflies!
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I purchased "TWINKLE" light at BIG LOTS for $7.50(?) for 100 makes the tree twinkle just like the trees at Disney!
If you would decorate your trees in your front yard you will get the same effect as the Disney trees! You really don't need the strobe flasher bulbs!
 

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