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100 Stay-Lit Mini Lights
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A set of 100 clear Stay-Lit lights.
Looks like a normal string of holiday lights, but what makes these special is they have an electronic shunt-device in each socket...so you can remove bulbs from their sockets and the rest of the set will stay lighted.
Takes care of the old "one light goes out they all go out" issue with mini lights :D cost is probably 3x that of normal lights (but is well worth it for hard to reach areas ... esp when bought on clearance)
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For the most part I just use clear mini's anymore .. and if I want color, LEDs
I keep my spare bulbs in trays - one try for each voltage, then the trays have dividers that I use for sorting colors...
One nice thing I've found with these Stay-Lit sets is they make good 'testers' you can put in a wrong-voltage bulb and it won't blow - the shunt-thingie in the sockets also regulates voltage, so a 12v bulb is real dim since its only getting 2.5v (where in a normal set it would blow instantly)
In addition to my sorted bulbs I've got a unstoted 10-gallon fishtank thats probably 3/4 full of those little packs of spare bulbs
Yep actually before there were fish in the tank before it became a 'bulb tank' (have multiple empty tanks sitting around..multiple ended up with 'junk' stored in them LOL)
At one time I used to do that too LOL
Even use an old Win 3.11 PC to flash/control them (all home-built hardware/software too)