LED light source

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:17 pm

Please don't nail me for commerce...I'll do a bit of anecdotal backstory talking so it's not so cold...

Like many people (at least here in Eugene), I made the jump from incandescent to LED holiday lights this year. Buuuuut...I now have a big tub of incandescent lights that I have positively no use for.

I chanced across an eco-blog that pointed me to this site, suggesting that we ship our lights to them to be recycled. I went to the site, www.holidayleds.com, and didn't find anything there that said "Send us your old incandescent lights!" I did, however, find a nice little source for LED faerie lights.

Since I've noticed a lot of Burners using faerie lights out on the Playa, I figured I'd pass the info along as a source. LEDs are almost tailor-made for the Playa: they shed good light, are virtually indestructible, look great (nicer colours) and suck up less juice. If you're running a gennie, you can probably run them all week on one tank. Or heck, run 'em off a battery, no recharge required unless you're running forty-eleventeen thousand of 'em. The site didn't have solar-powered as far as I could see, but that's probably next.

The prices are good. They sell 12-packs for anywhere from $109 to $219, depending on the size of the bulb. They have minis, raspberries, strawberries and ropes.

As a side-note...someone else developed a high-efficiency LED that outperforms even the current crop, and of course NanoSolar just came out with a thin-membrane solar panel that generates a watt for a quarter and a nickel.

Anyway, linkety-blinkety-doo:

http://www.holidayleds.com/

Post by **Eric** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:31 pm

diane o'thirst wrote:I went to the site, www.holidayleds.com, and didn't find anything there that said "Send us your old incandescent lights!"

Diane-
They must have added it since you looked- it's on the front page, under "What's New"

Thanks for the link!

phil · Post by **phil** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:51 pm

> didn't find anything there that said "Send us your old incandescent lights!"

http://www.holidayleds.com/holidayleds. ... ng_program
says they'll accept incandescent Christmas lights until January 31, 2008.

What are 'faery lights'? I searched their site for faery and fairy and got no results.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:17 pm

"Faerie lights" is an alternate word for "Christmas lights."

And I found the recycling page, thanks guys. I'm sending them a big box tomorrow.

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