Caleb Linburg Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Does anyone know where to get good purple led strings cheap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Amedee Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I've got 24 70 count Purple at $17.+ a strand from CDI.Purple is the highest cost for some reason. Mine are all Pro Grade though, You can probally find them cheaper.All my purple have two rectifiers per strand may have something to do with the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing4Dough Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 During this past Christmas season, I saw purple LEDs (along with quite a few other "unusual" colors) at Big Lots at a good price. Can't speak to their quality, nor does that help you this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Caleb Linburg wrote: Does anyone know where to get good purple led strings cheap?Got mine at Big Lots, they were "Pastel purple", but they looked fantastic and did what I wanted them too. They were also VERY LIMITED in stock and I cleaned out every Big Lots store within a 10 mile radius of me of every pack they had.These were in the Christmas Light section since the box was touted as Christmas LED lights. 35 LEDs per string, believe the cost was around $3.99 per box. Every store I got mine from only had 6 boxes of them. think I bought about 18 boxes (all I could find within close proximity of me from the 3 Big Lots stores),Big Lots WILL start putting their Halloween stuff out usually around the first part of August or near the end of July. Their Christmas stuff usually gets put out about 2-3 weeks after the Halloween stuff goes out. But I was still able to get all the purple I needed for my Halloween display before having to put up my display.The Pastel Purple LEDs really do look great. If I can dig some out of storage I'll try and take a photo of them so you can judge for yourself or go to YouTube and check out my Halloween Display videoes under the user name of csx5861 and see how they looked in action. I used them with Orange M5 LED strings, 35 count and alternated them with the Pastel Purple, which are of the button type LED. Wish I could have found them in M5, but Walgreens didn't sell the M5 Purple like they did in 2009, nor did they sell the M5 Orange either in 2010. Major disappointment to me because those are what I wanted, but they Big Lots Pastel Purple Buttons ended up looking and working out better than I had hoped for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 BTW: The Pastel Purples I got at Big Lots HAVE no rectifiers on the string, at least no big or small bumps anywhere that can be seen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I picked up purple and orange for my Halloween display recently at 1000bulbs I think for $15 for 24+ quantities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 When purple first came out I bought a mess load of them that could cover my large pine tree on the corner got them all from Zellors and Canadian tire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORi P Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Walmart and Big Lots usually carry both purple and orange for Halloween. I know that is a long way off.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenL_MCSE Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Action Lighting has Purple in stock in the M5 size. They only have Fuschia in C6 size.http://www.actionlighting.com/item-detail.asp?ID=2357I have LOTS of Action Lighting lights - very high quality and excellent customer service!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 KenL_MCSE wrote: Action Lighting has Purple in stock in the M5 size. They only have Fuschia in C6 size.http://www.actionlighting.com/item-detail.asp?ID=2357I have LOTS of Action Lighting lights - very high quality and excellent customer service!!!Ouch! $15.62 per string to me is just too expen$ive for a light string. I'm a cheap S.O.B. and look for the cheapest stuff I can find when it comes to L.E.D. or even incandescent light strings for that matter.When Walgreen's sold the M5 Orange, even though only 35 L.E.D.'s per string, I got them when they put them on clearance time and paid .75¢ per string/box. Looking back on it, now I wish I would have gotten some of the purple M5's, but they only had the Orange left. But even at regualr price, they weren't bad, $5.99 string or 2/$10. Now I wish I would have at least bought some of the purple M5's even at regular price!But Walgreen's sold them for the last time in 2009, in 2010 they didn't even carry the Orange or Purple M5 L.E.D. strings, that was a major disappointment for me, because Walgreen's was the only place that always sold for several years the M5 type L.E.D. Halloween strings. And the one year I had a few bucks and was going to actually buy them at their regular price, they opt not to carry or sell them any longer.:XSo every year I'll keep looking and hopefully find the Purple M5 types at a local store for around the price Walgreen's sold them at or keep hoping and asking Walgreen's when they'll sell them again.Even the cheapest on-line pricing for Purple L.E.D. M5's (35 L.E.D.'s) I ever found was still around $11.99 per string. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafter Bar R Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Purple is one of those phosphured LED's like the white ones. These LED's use red rather than yellow that is used in white LED's. The purple LED's that came out first were a darker or true purple compared with what is available today.Purple is also a rare color that is used mainly for decorative purposes and has very little practical commercial use. Also some of these strings can be the low end ultraviolet LED's which are not phosphured. This should help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Linburg Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 I was told that purple leds are a blue and purple led put together but I am probably wrong.Also I copied this from action lightings websiteFeatures:INDOOR ONLYCommercial Grade, UL Listed LED Mini Lights110 Volt, 4.8 Watt, 0.04 Amp power drawIndoor or Outdoor UseLED's spaced at 4" center. 17 feet longEnd-to-end plugs with stacking male plugLED is made of durable faceted plasticConnect up to 40 sets end-to-end!Individually poly bagged. Packed 12 sets/inner box, 2 inner boxes/case$25.00 Minimum Holiday OrderWhy does it say indoor only and then says for indoors and outdoors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenL_MCSE Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Indoor only - Good catch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Caleb Linburg wrote: Does anyone know where to get good purple led strings cheap?Here's a Christmas video where I used the BigLots Pastel Purple lights in mmy display. They are around the Gargae door and Front door of the house we were living at at the time.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztufb1jWUNg&NR=1&hl=en&fs=1I also used 50%-75% when sequencing them, some instances I did use 100%, at all levels they looked good!And here's a Halloween sequence where they were used:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMqp5ZdVP9I&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL&hl=en&fs=1They outlined the yard to keep folks out of the display area, alternating with a string of Orange - Pastel Purple - Orange - Pastel Purple and so on all around the perimeter of the display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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