Festive Christmas String Lights, Battery Operated Timer LED, White, 200 bulbs

For the price I paid for these, I don't have much to complain about. But if you're paying the retail prices on these, I'd suggest you look elsewhere.I bought a number of 300 piece sets of these in bright white, warm white, and multi color. This review could apply to most any color, they're fairly identical.First, the upside:• USB connector! Works as advertised, just unscrew and unplug from the battery pack, and it works in every single usb outlet I tried it in. I tried high power ports, low power ports, and chained multiple off those ports: the light is consistently bright no matter the usb source.• Build Quality (note, this is in the negatives too): I was very impressed visually with the build. They're similar to a very sturdy and expensive set I bought locally. Sturdy plastic battery box with hinged lid and silicone seal. The wires are a decent thickness and the bulbs seem high quality and well constructed. The usb plug has a nice weatherproof seeming screw connection.• The price: for between 2 and 3 washingtons, these are the cheapest battery op lights I've ever purchased.Now the downsides:• Number one for sure, the brightness. These are incredibly dim bulbs. The dimness is consistent across ten strands I tried, no matter the battery type or usb power source. I had planned to replace a 100 bulb strand of 120v lights that I use as ambient lighting, but even though there are 300 of these bad boys on a strand, they put out less light than a cell phone screen.I included a photo for reference here; two of the pictured sets are Festive warm and cold lights (the dim sets). From left to right: 120v cheap 100 bulb led light strand; 300 bulb Festive warm white on usb power; 132 bulb micro led strand from another manufacturer here, running on 6x AA batteries; lastly, Festive again, cool white 300 bulbs.• They are so ridiculously long! For something this dim, the strand would be better suited with half the bulbs and twice the brightness for a net power change of zero. And yes, I bought the 200 and 100 light sets from Festive too, they're exactly the same as these (but they run on AA batteries).• C batteries. I don't plan on actually using the battery cases for these, but I think this strand would be better suited to house 6 AA batteries instead. More common, cheaper, easier to get in rechargeable.• Build Quality: Although these appear well made, I did find some defects among some of my strands. Common problems were: broken battery house snap closure, loose or broken internal battery tabs, and faulty wiring (pull lightly on a strand and sections go dim). It was also common to find strands of what appeared to be hot glue webbing inside the battery compartments. I can't speak to longevity for these, but check your strands before your return period is up.• Annoying mode change button: this button is terrible. It's super soft and has no click to it, and making it change requires a long press, a pause, then another long press (repeat until you get to your desired mode or off setting). Actually getting them to switch was really inconsistent, and this happened with every strand I tried. FYI, the 200 and 100 bulb varieties use a lovely clicky and sealed press switch that is comparably a delight to work.I haven't measured the claim of getting weeks out of a set of batteries, but I'd imagine that it could be close given how dim an entire set is. I can't really use these for the applications I intended them for, but for the price I'm happy enough to have some strands to accent the car at holiday time, the tent while camping, or the bike at a certain dusty festival.

So I ordered these lights to decorate my room a little bit. (I try to pretend I’m not dead inside) anyway, the lights came and as I unraveled and unraveled.... and unraveled, I had way too many lights for my little room. I wrapped these lights around my room twice and made a design on my wall. So, that happened.As far as the quality goes, the lights are very bright but not bright enough to bother me at night when I’m going to sleep. Also, they are not bright enough to double as a nighttime reading light. So they are literally there to attempt to spark some inner child within me or something (or at least that’s what my therapist says). The settings are very cool, allowing me to swap between light displays with a click of a button. (I keep it on one setting regardless but it’s a cool feature)One last thing, because they’re on a 6 hour timer, I left them on when I left for work in the morning. I happened to not come home for the next few days. When I returned, the lights came on and scared the life out of me. However, the battery had not wavered. They were just as bright as they were before being left running for 3 1/2 days.All in all, I’m happy with this purchase.

I live on an isolated road with no light, at the end of an 800' driveway. These are ideal to string on a scrawny pine out by the road where I have no power. The string is about 100' long with white LEDs about every 4". It's 2 circuits, each being every other LED. They do it with 2 wires by polarity switching. It comes with a battery box that holds 3 C-batteries, but who has C's? Actually Dollar Tree does . . . 3 for $1. But the power plug that goes into the battery box is a USB plug. I took my mongo USB battery pack, made for powering/charging your phone, put it in a ziplock and hid it under the leaves. When you first power it up, it seems to take about a minute to get going. The control box has a button you push to cycle thru about 8 sequences. By pressing the button twice quickly it turns on a timer that is on for 6 hours and off for 18. A little green LED lights to indicate timer mode.

I used the battery-operated led string-lights around the inside of the doors of my small utility closet and utility closet that had no light. Just mounted the switch in a convenient place to reach, and strung the lights from there. It was a simple solution, for a tough problem, because even if I had installed a light at ceiling, the shelving would have blocked the light from getting to lower shelves in this very small closet. -- The string of lights works way better. I started by stapling a strip of aluminum foil around inside of the door opening. That helped this set of lights produce almost twice as much light, and lights illuminate every shelf very nicely. You can't see the aluminum strip or the lights, and anyway, it's just inside a closet, around the door. The use of such small closets means you only need the light for a few minutes, anyway, so being battery-operated is no problem, and I'll probably only have to replace the batteries once a year.

These are great lights, especially for the price! I use them out slide on my arbor. My other outdoolights are more of a warm color, these are definitely ice blue. They are very pretty! Just not white lights.

Perfect for projects. I cut the string down to 20 lights and there’s been no issues. Just make sure you connect the right wires and your good to cut any amount off. You can always add all or some back to the strand!

They are bright even though the bulb is small.

Very attractive lights. Love them.

Compre este kit de 300 luces para el pino de navidad de aprox 1.80mts de altura y la verdad es que quedaron perfectas la gran ventaja que veo es que ademas de adornar las puedes utilizar para exteriores por ejemplo si te vas a un camping, o decorar para un evento o algo así y conectarlas con una batería de respaldo USB yo las provee con uno de 7800 Mah y me duro casi 15 horas, totalmente recomendable adamas tienen IP44: Resistente a salpicaduras de agua espero les sirva mi opinión

Buena serie de luces además la programas a la hora que quieras que prenda y se apagará automáticamente a las 6 horas y dura 16 horas apagada y se prenderá a la misma hora ...la recomiendo

Love these lights

Muy buena calidad y resistente! Los Leda alumbran muy bien y el uso de pilas es perfecto para lugares donde no hay contactos de luz..