The Christmas holidays are coming up, and this means that it is soon time to put up your Christmas lights. For many of us, that also means that we have to buy new Christmas lights, and since this is something you onlye do once per year, it can be hard to know exactly what you need to look for when buying Christmas lights. In this article, we will be looking closer at some different types of Christmas lights.
C7 and C9 Christmas lights
This is the most popular type of Christmas lights. The C7 type uses a 2-inch bulb, while the C9 uses 3-inch bulbs. These lights are very bright and can be seen from a great distance. They come on long strings which can have up to 150 light bulbs, and are designed so that if one light burns out, the rest will still glow unaffected. Now this is very desired by most people, when you have a big setup of Christmas lights. These Christmas lights are definitely the most popular ones on the market, and especially when you put the LED lights on them. With the LED lights, you get very power efficient Christmas lights that will not heat up and therefore can be used both indoors and outdoors. If you put your lights outside, the good thing about LED bulbs is that they don't shatter in the same way the old glass bulbs do, and therefore they are safer too.
Fairy Lights
These are much smaller and normally hold around 50 or 100 bulbs on each string, but you can buy them with up to 300 bulbs on one string. They are usually sold with the LED bulbs, and are therefore very safe and power efficient. You can often find these as battery operated Christmas lights or solar powered which gives them a great advantage in power savings, and makes the installation of the lights much easier.
Rope Lights
A more special type of Christmas lights are the rope lights. These are made of LED lights inside a long vinyl tube, which makes them very easy to hang up and store when you are not using them. They can be used for pretty much everything. The bad thing with these lights is that the lights cannot be changed. However, since it is LED lights, they live for a very long time.
Net Type Lights
A good idea when you have big surfaces to cover, or don't want to spend a lot of time hanging up big strings of lights, is net lights. They are very easy to put up on trees, bushes and plain surfaces such as garage doors or walls. They give a more symmetric effect, and will fit in at every home. Like most other types of Christmas lights, you can also get these solar powered or battery operated, which once again can be very good for your pocketbook.
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