On 12/05/2016 01:47 PM, wrote:

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I have played with LED rope light and it is in sections and I imagine
LED strings are too. The up side is you don't have any lamp sockets
and that is usually where those cheap peanut light strings fail


The have to be. A LED maintains a voltage of about 2 or 3 volts.
Dropping 120V to this wastes too much power. They use about 25 to 35
LEDs in series.

I lose 1 or 2 (rope lights) every year. Usually it's a series (about 1.5
feet) failure.

BTW, I've already had one series failure this year (after putting them
in the yard). I made a loop of the bad part and at night you can't tell
anything's wrong.

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