TitusCarnathan Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 http://www.lowes.com/pd_348497-78348-LED-50L-W_0__?productId=3496183&Ntt=led+lights&pl=1¤tURL=%2Fpl__0__s%3FNtt%3Dled%2Blights&facetInfo=lowes has white led lights on sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitusCarnathan Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 looks like its limited availability for most lowes locations though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Absolutely NONE in my area! Tried 6 different zip codes, all return nothing available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitusCarnathan Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 same with me all nearby areas come up none left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Found 6 in St. Pete. Too bad I live in NC...1) LOWE'S OF ST. PETERSBURG, FL SAINT PETERSBURG (4 miles)More InfoQTY:6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Slacker wrote: Found 6 in St. Pete. Too bad I live in NC...1) LOWE'S OF ST. PETERSBURG, FL SAINT PETERSBURG (4 miles)More InfoQTY:6St. Pete is not 4 miles from my location! I believe, but don't hold me to it, almost or just over 200 miles from me. Definitely not worth the trip. It's on the West Coast of Florida and I'm almost on the East Coast (less than 50 miles from it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l0chte Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I've tried several lowes online stores in the last few weeks.. The stock shown is almost always wrong... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightsinMaine Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I had picked up around 50 sets from (2) local Lowes in my area.....$2/string. Good price for LED (and I've never had issues with store-bought non-sealed LEDs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 LightsinMaine wrote: I had picked up around 50 sets from (2) local Lowes in my area.....$2/string. Good price for LED (and I've never had issues with store-bought non-sealed LEDs)Then you have been extremely lucky! I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 23-25 strands fail this past season. And they were all non-sealed strands.Biggest issues: Socket contacts rusted out, along with the LED Leads in those sockets. And once the socket contacts started rusting away, the sockets cracked and broke. Rendering the strand completely useless!And these came from Lowes, Target, K-Mart, Home Depot and Wal-Mart.The only strands I really have had absolutely no issues like this came from Walgreens and, of all places, Big Lots. I just checked them and not a spot of rust on the LED leads or the sockets, and no, these are NOT sealed strands either, Go figure.These are mainly my Halloween lights that have had no issues, but the multi-colored and White LED varieties I bought from Lowes, Target, K-Mart, Home Depot and Wal-Mart were the problem children.So I'm purchasing SEALED strands this go around and that should alleviate any of those issues. Just don't feel I can trust the Big Box stores after that many failures this past season (2011 Christmas), not when the LED strands were only 2 years old or just a little less than that.Had to learn the hard way this past year when I kept having to pull out my HALLOWEEN colored LED strands to replace the ones in my Christmas Display since I didn't have the same type/color to replace the ones that kept failing miserably.So if you've been using those BB store LED strands for more than 2 seasons, I'd have to say you've been very lucky thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMaris Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Orville,Anyone living in Florida probably needs to go with sealed strings. Drier climates can get away with replaceable bulbs.This year in Chicago my lights got wet only twice from Thanksgiving to New Years Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 SteveMaris wrote: Orville,Anyone living in Florida probably needs to go with sealed strings. Drier climates can get away with replaceable bulbs.This year in Chicago my lights got wet only twice from Thanksgiving to New Years Day.It's not just the rain, sometimes we don't get that much at all, some seasons we do. but if you have an irrigation system (i.e. sprinklers) and the lights are in bushes and trees, they gonna get wet! No way around that and the plants and lawn all have got to have their watering!And that's where most of my "wet" strands came from, not so much rain, but the darn sprinklers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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