Gman7711 Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Do the LED s strands with the standard 120v connection (non flashing) work with the gen 3 controllers fine? Do they still give you the power savings as apposed to incandescent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamS Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 I have 2 Gen2 controllers, ran Lowes LED strings with no issues. I didnt use any snubbers or resistors to get them to fade properly. They faded, shimmered, and twinkled just fine. The controller is only 1 part of the equiation for smooth fades, some strings still need rectifiers or snubbers. I think there is a firmware update coming along to help lessen those issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gman7711 Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 GoofyGuy wrote:I have 2 Gen2 controllers, ran Lowes LED strings with no issues. I didnt use any snubbers or resistors to get them to fade properly. They faded, shimmered, and twinkled just fine. The controller is only 1 part of the equiation for smooth fades, some strings still need rectifiers or snubbers. I think there is a firmware update coming along to help lessen those issues.I know my 3rd gen has LED timing curves. I just wanted to make sure with incandescents getting harder to find, I didn't have to switch to the DC boards. I an comfortable with 120v.Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james campbell Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 most store leds will work fine,but there are some that will not fade,also I have seen on here were people say some can catch on fire if you try to fade them.so be careful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgrant Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 So far.....I've only found one group of LED strings that will not fade normally that I bought this last end of Christmas seasonal sales. Those were "Martha" lights that I think I bought at Home Depot. Any strings that have their own controllers for the lights, I would avoid using on the LOR controllers although many might work. Funny thing, the cheapest light strings I have, work very well and came from BigLots. I bought a lot of strings from Lowes following Christmas during the sales, paying $0.66 per box...they all work great! I bought them for my coming megatree but turned out, my length was wrong, so I'll use them on minitrees instead.You can't go wrong on saving money on the power bill using LED's. Comparing my static displays in the past two years, using nearly all LED's to others in the neighborhood using incandescent lamp displays, mine stand out by far better but that's also the "look" that I wanted. So, it depends on the desired view from the street. I do have about %10 incandescent in my static display which of course this year will be nearly all LOR controlled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gman7711 Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 I just happen to have a biglots by me! Thanks!dgrant wrote:So far.....I've only found one group of LED strings that will not fade normally that I bought this last end of Christmas seasonal sales. Those were "Martha" lights that I think I bought at Home Depot. Any strings that have their own controllers for the lights, I would avoid using on the LOR controllers although many might work. Funny thing, the cheapest light strings I have, work very well and came from BigLots. I bought a lot of strings from Lowes following Christmas during the sales, paying $0.66 per box...they all work great! I bought them for my coming megatree but turned out, my length was wrong, so I'll use them on minitrees instead.You can't go wrong on saving money on the power bill using LED's. Comparing my static displays in the past two years, using nearly all LED's to others in the neighborhood using incandescent lamp displays, mine stand out by far better but that's also the "look" that I wanted. So, it depends on the desired view from the street. I do have about %10 incandescent in my static display which of course this year will be nearly all LOR controlled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 dgrant wrote: You can't go wrong on saving money on the power bill using LED's.Money saved on the power bill is not really significant.The real money saved is not having to pay an electrical contractor big bucks to install a new sub-panel and outlets to power those hundreds of thousands of incandescent lights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ Hvasta Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Its a savings too, when you re-purpose the 2 unused 50a Spa breakers to power yer lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-Paul Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Never mind, misread a statement. Edited July 10, 2012 by Max-Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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