GKI/Bethlehem Lighting Indoor/Outdoor 50-Lamp LED Lighting Set

by Bethlehem Lighting

Product Features

• Decorative wide-angle light set with 50 lights
• Set uses LED wide-angle 5 mm lens
• Durable construction supported by a 3-year warranty
• Safety certified; UL listed for indoor/outdoor use
• Cool to the touch; available in a wide variety of colors

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 4.1 x 1 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F54934
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 722251
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,619 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Color: Multi

Amazon.com Review

This decorative wide-angle lighting set from GKI/Bethlehem Lighting comes with 50 LED wide-angle 5 mm lens lights. Though it's perfect for holiday decorating, the light set can also be used year round, indoors or outdoors. GKI/Bethlehem Lighting excels in making quality holiday lights with long-lasting brilliance. Each lamp shines with rich color and remarkable intensity for three years. Safety certified, the lights are UL listed for indoor and outdoor use. The light set remains cool to the touch and is available in a wide variety of colors.

Product Description

FLEXCHANGE LED Multi-Color 50-Light Set. GKI's patent pending FLEXCHANGE LED design is a sealed lighting system with non-corrosive components offering worry free indoor and outdoor use. ENERGY STAR qualified lighting provides brilliant light but uses about 75% less energy than standard lighting, produces 75% less heat and lasts up to ten times longer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best LED strings available, November 24, 2007

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Travis Jordan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bethlehem Lighting Indoor/Outdoor 50-Lamp 5-Millimeter Wide-Angle LED Christmas Lighting Set, Multi-Color (Kitchen)

I've examined every LED Christmas string available in big retail and small specialty stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, getting in trouble plenty of times for plugging products into random outlets for inspection, and I can say this particular Bethlehem Lighting LED set offers the brightest and most vivid colors available. They've also managed to completely avoid the strobe effect cheap LED strings suffer from. As for durability, I've outlined decks, walkways and such with the clear version and left them operating year-round on a timer for evening illumination; the clear sets are going on two years of service and show no signs of deterioration, despite very heavy rains and scorching hot summers. Also, the clear/white LEDs are crisp and clean so the decorated areas will look upscale and high-tech, with light properties harmonizing with the stars above. Your neighbors (or customers, for businesses) will appreciate the installation of such a refined product.

For tree decorating with the multicolored LEDs, on a 7-foot tree I like to use two strands (connected end-to-end) spiraling up the tree. I then add one set of the standard (incandescent) clear mini-lights, 100 bulbs is great, which must be the "twinkle" version, not constant-on (looks static/dead) and not the electronic flash (looks like a robot) or chase (looks like a billboard) versions. The multicolored LEDs give you the most vivid, pure colors which are truly a pleasure to look at; the standard incandescent mini lights add essential warmth to the tree and give a classic look and feel; the "twinkle" version of the clear traditional mini lights give life and a magical quality to the whole composition.

These multicolor LED strings are also great for outdoor use, but become quite expensive with the configuration I've found best, which is three LED strings overlapping in parallel: two multicolor LED strings matched up where the bases of two of the same color lights are touching, then one clear/white LED string with the clear bulbs in the middle of the space between the colored bulb clusters. I've done quite a bit of experimenting and this gives the best appearance from a distance - bright, multi-angle color bursts with some white shimmer interspersed. Look in the electrical section of your local hardware store for screw-in plastic wire clamps to keep all three strings mounted nicely, and be sure to keep a steady tension on the wire when installing so they don't sag.

One final note - anytime you add a lens or bulb shape to an LED you lose light. This strand, which is just LEDs on wire, will give you the brightest colors possible! The Bethlehem Lighting LED strings are a fantastic product for holiday and year-round use!

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Use them year-round!, June 26, 2007

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C. M. Lindsay "Ttam" (Matlacha, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bethlehem Lighting Indoor/Outdoor 50-Lamp 5-Millimeter Wide-Angle LED Christmas Lighting Set, Multi-Color (Kitchen)

I love these lights. They use about .02 watts and they don't get warm at all. I use them outside on my back patio year-round for that "festive" look.

Couple of things of note...

I have the lights on a timer so that they're on at night. But because they use so little electricity and the timer "leaks" a little electricity, the lights are always on very dimly. The instructions on the timer specifically say that you must have more than a 40 watt load, so this is the result. Not really an issue though - I just live with it since the electricity consumed is so small.

The bulbs are NOT replaceable. They are built right into the body of the light fixtures. And yes, they do burn out - not as fast as incandescent, but I usually get one or two per strand after a couple of weeks of operation.

Some of the colors are brighter than others. For some reason, the green and blue colors are extremely bright, whereas the others are uniform. Again, not a big deal for me.

These lights may not be available off-season, but I have found a couple of places that carry them - they probably have to go rummaging around in the deepest darkest reaches of the warehouse in the middle of summer, but they have 'em.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY!!!, January 10, 2007

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Carrie L. (NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bethlehem Lighting Indoor/Outdoor 50-Lamp 5-Millimeter Wide-Angle LED Christmas Lighting Set, Multi-Color (Kitchen)

I was very pleased when I received these lights and first put them on the tree, but within the first week all of the blue lights started burning out! That was the reason I went with the LED lights, they are supposed to last for years, not one week! I will have to replace them next year since you can't change the bulbs.

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