As the Christmas season approaches, you might be looking for some decorating advice. Here are some tips for using LED lights to make Christmas magical for your entire family.
Are you weary of gazing at steady-on Christmas lighting decorations?
If so,
now is the perfect time to add some sparkle to your life!
While planning a Christmas light decorating scheme, it is important to take a few design elements into account. Your first step should be selecting the specific light style you wish, based on your personal tastes and preferences. Many formats are available and run the gambit from conventional C-7 or C-9 sets, to miniature size, to LED Christmas lights. Avid holiday lighting enthusiasts will love the vast assortment of available LED light colors, sizes, and arrangement designs. Your next task is color scheme selection.
Clear is the most popular color and red, green, and blue multi-hues are a close second. A recent emergent trend is eye-catching Christmas decorative schemes consisting of pink, teal, and purple lights.
Okay, you have decided on the best kind(s) and color(s) of lights to buy. Your next question is likely to be, "Do I want my lighting display to move or twinkle?" On the other hand, you might be wondering how to enjoy LED Christmas lights that twinkle without driving the neighbors insane.
Listed below are several different means of creating moving holiday lights.
1. Make miniature lights twinkle. Examine the string to locate an extra tiny bulb with a red tip. This is called a "flasher bulb" and plugging it in makes the whole string of lights start in unison.
It takes only one flasher bulb for an entire string. You might want to install a flasher bulb in every section of very long strings, however.
2. Integrated mini-light controllers. These devices are typically found on strings of miniature lights that have at least 140 multi-function that can fade, chase, and remain steady-on.
3. Conventional C-7 and C-9 holiday lighting sets may be arranged in sets of 2 or 3 strings that feature 30-50 percent spacing of individual bulbs. Connect them to a multi-switch controller that automatically cycles through all its channels. This produces a wonderful marquee visual effect.
4. Finally, a very attractive arrangement that gives a great look of elegance is mixing a handful of C-7 and/or C-9 twinklers with a big bunch of clear bulbs.
Twinklers begin to wink as they get hotter. This means that flashing does not occur immediately upon switching the power on.
Flashers, twinklers, steady-ons. These are the ways to put some personality into Christmas light displays. Think of it as a basic feature of your overall design.
