LED flashers

[Scammer15]

Since I have gone full FULL LED, including in the house, I miss the flashing of the lights on the Christmas Tree, does anyone have any idea how to get the LED's to flash inside? without using LOR of course, Thanks New Member Nick

[Guest wbottomley]

Scammer15 wrote:

Since I have gone full FULL LED, including in the house, I miss the flashing of the lights on the Christmas Tree, does anyone have any idea how to get the LED's to flash inside?  without using LOR of course, Thanks New Member Nick

You might want to explain what you're trying or wanting to do.

[Dale J]

i took a controller from a old set of chasing lights and cut the lights off took a 4x4 box and put two duplex outlets in it and isolated them so there was four single outlets and then wired in the old light controller, now you can plug your led strings into the outlets and have them chase or just blink works good inside or out

[George Simmons]

Mountainwxman wrote:

You might want to explain what you're trying or wanting to do.

Maybe he's not trying to do anything other than just "scam" us...

[Guest Don Gillespie]

George Simmons wrote:

: Maybe he's not trying to do anything other than just "scam" us...

Thats lame George

[George Simmons]

Sorry Don, I couldn't resist given the OP's screen name. Not exactly an element of one's personality that many people would choose to advertise like that, much less 14 other people before him...

[Scammer15]

Actually I got the name Scammer because of my work, everyone believes that I scam when I really work my butt off, not a problem, enjoy the name so stuck with it.

[Dave H1]

Hello neighbor,

You might try doing a search for this product..........

http://www.thencc.com/westinghouse/Item.asp?CategoryID=2641&SubCategoryID=2645&StyleID=20077

http://www.thencc.com/stanley/LS/Instruction/28078_FXremoteManual.pdf

works pretty good for the inside tree. I doubt that it is still in production with all of the advanced off the shelf controllers available.

Check e-bay

[WilliamS]

Do you just want the lights lights to flash randomly like the old days of inserting the clear/red tipped bulb in the line? They make flasher units the plug inbetween the line and the wall. To do many strings to flash at alternating times would require a few of those but can be done.

[Guest guest]

Dave H1 wrote:

Hello neighbor,

You might try doing a search for this product..........

http://www.thencc.com/westinghouse/Item.asp?CategoryID=2641&SubCategoryID=2645&StyleID=20077

http://www.thencc.com/stanley/LS/Instruction/28078_FXremoteManual.pdf

works pretty good for the inside tree. I doubt that it is still in production with all of the advanced off the shelf controllers available.

Check e-bay

Well the Westinghouse site doesn't say it's no longer in production or not available. However, if a person were interested in knowing for sure, they post the item # at the bottom of the page and have a contact option at the top. So I'd send an e-mail with their item # and ask them directly about it. May still be available.

[Guest guest]

Scammer15 wrote:

Since I have gone full FULL LED, including in the house, I miss the flashing of the lights on the Christmas Tree, does anyone have any idea how to get the LED's to flash inside? without using LOR of course, Thanks New Member Nick

If the LED strand is WIRED in SERIES, this may or may not work, but if you go to Radio Shack or somewhere where you can buy an FLASHER LED, they come in Red. Yellow and Green, not sure if there is a White version, anyway, you replace ONE of the LEDs in the strand with the FLASHER LED, this will, depending on how the strand is wired, make all LED's in that section of the strand Flash On/Off.

It's the simplist way to do it. But if you add one and it doesn't work, it's the way the strand was wired. If you have like a 100 LED strand, you'd have to add a FLASHER LED in each 50 bulb section, a 50 bulb strand, may require only one FLASHER LED, or a FLASHER LED in each section of 25 LED's to Flash them ON/OFF.

Of course this only works with strands that have REPLACABLE LED bulbs, sealed strands will require some type of external FLASHER unit.

Used to buy one that just plugged into a standard 2-prong wall outlet and the Christmas Light strand would plug into the back of it, it was a simple mechanical device, similar to design of how the red tipped incandescent bulbs work, it heated up, copper contacts seperated, turning off light strand, cooled off, contacts came back together and lights came on. These when I used them years ago in my static displays sold for a whopping $0.99¢ each. Since they were mechanical, they did wear out after a bit. But they worked. I doubt these are even made any more, haven't seen one in years, not since the addition of controllers being built onto the light strands.

Geez, it appears that they may still make this thing, (it's called an outlet winker) but the price is a LOT higher (just not sure if they are actually available):

http://www.bulbtown.com/OUTLET_WINKER_p/31505.htm

and here:

http://www.fruitridgetools.com/storefrontprofiles/processfeed.aspx?sfid=22174&i=135478006&mpid=8171&dfid=1

But it seems you can't buy them at the moment. Tried adding some to a cart, but it never activated the "add to cart" button.

So you may want to e-mail (if one is supplied at the site) and find out if these are still available for purhcase.

[sedoc]

holaday light store in tonkawa oklahoma has a light controler that will do that about 25.00

[BrownOut]

They also sell Philips LED twinkle lights at Target during the holiday season.

[Scammer15]

Brownout, that's exactly what I purchased from Target, not all the lights twinkle, but enough to make the effect that I was looking for, EVERYONE else, thank you very much for the wonderful suggestions, great teamwork in helping a novice get off the floor.