Going from incandescent to LED

[MikeA]

My Mega tree has 200 bulbs per section...so that's 3200 bulbs incandescent.

Should I figure that my bulb count will be cut in half due to the brightness of LED?

Edited October 15, 2012 by MikeA

[Richard Hamilton]

I say no. Even if the LEDs are brighter, which I doubt, on a Megatree you want a lot of bulbs spaced closely together in a string in order to get the best effect when you are doing things like spinning. Thus, it is not so much about the brightness as it is about the closeness of the bulbs.

[imawlkr2]

I had my bulb count go down slightly. I had 23' 100ct incan strings and went to 70ct LED strings because they were the same length. A 100ct LED string may not be the same as a 100ct incan string you are currently using. When I went from incan to LED the tree was brighter with less bulbs.