WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.127 As we reach the end of November, 00:00:02.127 --> 00:00:06.316 many of us  get out the decorations and fa la la la la and whatnot. 00:00:06.316 --> 00:00:10.278 I’m certainly no exception,  especially when it comes to lighting. 00:00:10.278 --> 00:00:14.942 Why exactly do we litter our homes with light  bulbs ‘round Christmas time? 00:00:14.942 --> 00:00:17.079 Don’t know, but it’s probably marketing. 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:19.068 By golly it worked on me, though, 00:00:19.068 --> 00:00:23.805 and as a lighting enthusiast generally the  opportunity to put hundreds of little light bulbs 00:00:23.805 --> 00:00:28.503 on railings and windows and shrubs and trees and stuff is just impossible to pass up. 00:00:28.503 --> 00:00:34.347 But as you may very well know, I have a problem with the Christmas lighting industry. 00:00:34.347 --> 00:00:37.115 And that problem is LEDs. 00:00:37.115 --> 00:00:39.765 Don’t get me wrong, I love LEDs! 00:00:39.765 --> 00:00:44.608 The light emitting diode is one of the most important inventions of the last however many years. 00:00:44.608 --> 00:00:47.791 And some LED Christmas lights are great! 00:00:48.693 --> 00:00:53.445 But multi-colored LED Christmas lights usually aren’t. 00:00:53.445 --> 00:00:56.493 Rather than look festive and cheery and bright, 00:00:56.493 --> 00:01:03.593 modern LED Christmas light sets usually make it look like a gaming PC exploded on your front lawn. 00:01:03.593 --> 00:01:06.141 If that aesthetic tickles your fancy, 00:01:06.141 --> 00:01:08.439 I will judge you but I won’t get in your way. 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:09.780 Have fun. 00:01:09.780 --> 00:01:17.192 But for the past several years I have been on a foolish quest to determine the best way to make modern LED Christmas lights 00:01:17.192 --> 00:01:20.953 look like old-fashioned incandescent Christmas lights. 00:01:20.953 --> 00:01:25.057 Luckily, some much-more-commited-than-me folks started up Tru-Tone 00:01:25.057 --> 00:01:31.784 and now manufacture incredibly excellent LED versions of C7 and C9 bulbs. 00:01:31.784 --> 00:01:36.627 They are virtually indistinguishable from their energy-sucking incandescent counterparts 00:01:36.627 --> 00:01:39.960 and if that’s something you’re looking for, you should check them out. 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:43.139 They’re not paying me to say that, I bought these with my own money 00:01:43.139 --> 00:01:46.593 but they are exactly what I’ve been hoping somebody would do 00:01:46.593 --> 00:01:53.573 and if you live in North America (and are the same kind of weirdo I am)  I think you’ll be more than pleased with them. 00:01:53.573 --> 00:01:58.810 However, Tru-Tone has not yet made inroads on  tackling the mini-light problem. 00:01:58.810 --> 00:02:00.837 So here we go again. 00:02:00.837 --> 00:02:02.899 To explain what my problem is, 00:02:02.899 --> 00:02:08.818 in ye-olden days we made light happen by making tiny bits of tungsten wire very very hot. 00:02:08.818 --> 00:02:11.562 Hot things produce light through incandescence, 00:02:11.562 --> 00:02:17.270 and when it’s hot enough a whole bunch of wavelengths of light will be emitted which together look white. 00:02:17.270 --> 00:02:20.670 When we wanted to make that look a color other-than-white, 00:02:20.670 --> 00:02:28.217 we’d add a coating to the glass of the light bulb which acted to filter out most wavelengths aside from our target color. 00:02:28.217 --> 00:02:35.023 The result was a sort of blend of wavelengths that produced a pleasing (if reduced in brightness) appearance. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.960 LEDs, on the other hand, only emit a single wavelength of light 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.482 which depends on the materials used to create it. 00:02:42.482 --> 00:02:50.109 That monochromatic light has an incredibly intense color because it is literally pure as can be - 00:02:50.109 --> 00:02:53.189 it’s like the color wheel picker on your image editing app. 00:02:53.189 --> 00:02:55.614 A perfectly pure hue. 00:02:56.155 --> 00:02:57.853 Some of you may like this. 00:02:57.853 --> 00:03:00.079 Even I like it at times. 00:03:00.079 --> 00:03:01.389 But for Christmas lights? 00:03:01.389 --> 00:03:03.200 It’s just wrong. 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:08.175 Especially greens and blues - that is not a warm and fuzzy looking festive display, 00:03:08.175 --> 00:03:13.793 it’s a tacky storefront with those chasing LED strips around the windows letting you know they have CBD oil. 00:03:13.793 --> 00:03:16.318 I’m sorry, that’s just the truth! 00:03:16.318 --> 00:03:20.149 If the blue and the green could be toned down a bit, 00:03:20.149 --> 00:03:23.319 I’d probably be a little less grumpy about this. 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:30.271 A large part of why LED multicolored sets and incandescent multi-colored sets look so starkly different 00:03:30.271 --> 00:03:35.900 is that the filament in an incandescent light doesn’t produce a whole lot of the green-to-blue wavelengths 00:03:35.900 --> 00:03:41.776 (that would require getting tungsten into melty temperatures and those bulbs wouldn’t last long at all). 00:03:41.776 --> 00:03:49.649 So, through pure physics reasons the blue and green will appear quite a lot darker than reds, oranges, and especially yellows. 00:03:49.649 --> 00:03:57.289 A multi-colored LED set that just mimicked those relative  brightness ratios would be a huge improvement. 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.134 There are reasons that’s difficult, though. 00:04:00.134 --> 00:04:03.338 Something something voltage drop, gallium nitride, et cetera. 00:04:03.338 --> 00:04:05.234 But there’s another way: 00:04:05.234 --> 00:04:11.131 through lots of innovation involving phosphor coatings excited by blue to near-UV diodes, 00:04:11.131 --> 00:04:17.694 we’ve made extremely good and reasonably broad-band white LEDs that are quite cheap. 00:04:18.303 --> 00:04:24.457 So, why don’t we just make a whole bunch of white diodes and put a colored cap over them a la the way we used to do it? 00:04:24.457 --> 00:04:26.944 Then we could have the best of both worlds! 00:04:27.214 --> 00:04:30.546 Just to make sure that hasn’t happened yet and, side note, 00:04:30.546 --> 00:04:34.365 somebody please just do it so I can end this! 00:04:34.365 --> 00:04:38.910 I went to a couple of big box stores to see what their big boxes had in store. 00:04:38.910 --> 00:04:40.388 The first thing of note: 00:04:40.388 --> 00:04:42.690 Europe is invading! 00:04:42.690 --> 00:04:47.452 Traditionally, light sets over here just have raw mains voltage going through them. 00:04:47.452 --> 00:04:53.226 A set of 100 mini-lights will actually have two runs of 50 bulbs wired in series. 00:04:53.226 --> 00:05:00.461 The bulbs are rated for somewhere near 2.5 volts and with them all in series that adds up to 125 volts 00:05:00.461 --> 00:05:04.801 (the bulbs actually fail as a short circuit which keeps the rest of the strand lit… 00:05:04.801 --> 00:05:08.393 usually… so they build some margin in for that). 00:05:08.393 --> 00:05:14.840 C9 and C7 sets supply straight line voltage to each bulb socket which, fun fact, 00:05:14.840 --> 00:05:19.776 is why those sets have polarized plugs and mini-light sets don’t. 00:05:19.776 --> 00:05:27.249 This is a note to editor me, make sure you put that little asterisk in there about how some older C7 and C9 sets were also in series. 00:05:27.249 --> 00:05:28.665 Did you do it? 00:05:28.665 --> 00:05:29.832 Good! 00:05:29.832 --> 00:05:38.619 Now, though, LED light strands that come with little power adapters that make some flavor of not-line-voltage are starting to become available. 00:05:38.619 --> 00:05:40.884 And new form factors, too! 00:05:40.884 --> 00:05:47.673 Most LED sets have been mimicking the shape of incandescent lights but now we have so-called “rice lights” - 00:05:47.673 --> 00:05:51.717 and these have some built-in chasing functions to make things interesting. 00:05:51.717 --> 00:05:58.829 And then there’s these “ribbon lights” which seem to be a play on LED tape light but with diodes in little blobs. 00:05:58.829 --> 00:06:00.715 Both of these are intriguing, 00:06:00.715 --> 00:06:04.022 though I must say that ribbon light doesn’t look too durable, 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:10.160 but sadly the multi-colored sets still look like  something a unicorn threw up so I had to pass. 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:17.762 Also interesting, some of the “traditional” LED sets for sale are starting to come with non-replaceable bulbs. 00:06:17.762 --> 00:06:20.779 To be honest, this annoyed me at first. 00:06:20.779 --> 00:06:24.286 But I’ve come around to this probably being better. 00:06:24.286 --> 00:06:29.975 Until this year, every one of these sets I’ve seen has technically had replaceable bulbs 00:06:29.975 --> 00:06:34.288 but they were made just like the incandescent sets of the past. 00:06:34.288 --> 00:06:42.609 In fact, it was often the legs of the LED bent around the bulb holder just like the tiny wire leads of the incandescent mini-lights. 00:06:42.609 --> 00:06:49.544 Corrosion was a major problem there, plus the bulbs could sometimes end up falling out which would kill the whole strand, 00:06:49.544 --> 00:06:55.462 so sealing the whole thing up is likely going  to make the set more durable in the long-run. 00:06:55.462 --> 00:06:57.550 Alas, when it came to the colors, 00:06:57.550 --> 00:07:01.544 everything was either “decent warm white” or “shield your eyes multi-colored” 00:07:01.544 --> 00:07:07.508 so it’s time yet again to try my luck at figuring out how to make these less awful. 00:07:07.508 --> 00:07:10.065 Here’s a summary of things I’ve tried in the past. 00:07:10.065 --> 00:07:15.087 Sharpies: worked great but quickly faded in the sun and/or rain. 00:07:15.087 --> 00:07:17.522 Spray paint: didn’t work at all. 00:07:17.522 --> 00:07:20.832 Acrylic craft paint: didn’t work at all. 00:07:20.832 --> 00:07:25.841 Transparent acrylic craft paint: worked surprisingly well! 00:07:25.841 --> 00:07:28.713 Durability testing didn’t happen, though, because I forgot. 00:07:28.713 --> 00:07:31.012 Nail polish: another surprise hit! 00:07:31.012 --> 00:07:37.423 Probably the easiest of all and durability was probably decent but again actual testing didn’t happen because I forgot. 00:07:37.423 --> 00:07:39.373 But that’s all I’ve tried so far. 00:07:39.373 --> 00:07:40.612 At least I think. 00:07:40.612 --> 00:07:43.344 Wait - I forgot about the Rit dye: 00:07:43.344 --> 00:07:44.953 That also didn’t work. 00:07:44.953 --> 00:07:49.056 The heat from the dying process made the lights get all bendy, too. 00:07:49.056 --> 00:07:51.674 Surely there’s something better out there. 00:07:51.674 --> 00:07:54.784 And for your viewing pleasure and my sense of ennui, 00:07:54.784 --> 00:07:59.022 it’s time to once again test some light bulb painting techniques. 00:07:59.022 --> 00:08:03.547 On the docket today are epoxy resin and dyes for said epoxy resin, 00:08:03.547 --> 00:08:08.054 then we have a twist on acrylic craft paint involving some water and glue, 00:08:08.200 --> 00:08:11.402 and finally we have a mystery third thing. 00:08:11.402 --> 00:08:13.881 Stay tuned for that one. It worked pretty good! 00:08:13.881 --> 00:08:17.103 I started this year’s shenanigans with epoxy resin. 00:08:17.103 --> 00:08:21.282 I ordered some and some dyes for it and thought “this might work OK.” 00:08:21.282 --> 00:08:23.605 But a thought is not the same as an experiment, 00:08:23.605 --> 00:08:25.777 and I don’t have room for thought experiments. 00:08:26.228 --> 00:08:30.273 Anyway so I mixed some up, added some dye to it, and hoped for the best. 00:08:30.273 --> 00:08:37.777 I started with blue because this is the trickiest color - I want a nice deep blue, so it needs to have quite a lot of dye. 00:08:37.777 --> 00:08:41.088 But go too far and it might be black. 00:08:41.088 --> 00:08:43.865 Turns out that wasn’t a problem here. 00:08:43.865 --> 00:08:52.271 Despite adding quite a lot of dye to the resin, the mixture added hardly any color in the thin skim-coating that I knew I’d need. 00:08:52.271 --> 00:08:54.310 And this is something that I need to touch on - 00:08:54.310 --> 00:08:59.364 in all my attempts here, people are (quite helpfully) suggesting things I should try 00:08:59.364 --> 00:09:05.474 but a lot of the suggestions I’ve received turn out to have nowhere near as much color as I need. 00:09:05.474 --> 00:09:10.949 Things like stained glass paint or colored heat shrink tubing just aren’t dark enough - 00:09:10.949 --> 00:09:17.506 the glass of an unlit incandescent set looks nearly black on all colors but yellow or amber. 00:09:17.506 --> 00:09:21.300 So if this was gonna work, I’d need way more dye. 00:09:22.066 --> 00:09:24.139 After adding way more dye, 00:09:24.139 --> 00:09:29.377 I was starting to get worried that there would be too much dye for the resin to cure properly. 00:09:29.377 --> 00:09:31.438 But there was only one way to find out. 00:09:31.438 --> 00:09:39.953 After making the concoction so dark as to appear black, things looked promising at first but then quickly became the opposite of that. 00:09:39.953 --> 00:09:45.798 Test-dunks revealed just how tricky the balance is here between too dark and not dark enough - 00:09:45.798 --> 00:09:51.436 the light goes from hardly visible to  just right to too pale in a matter of moments. 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:55.347 Add to this the general difficulty of getting the coating thickness I wanted 00:09:55.347 --> 00:10:02.548 (this resin was extremely runny and even after waiting over  an hour, despite thickening quite a bit, it would still run off eventually) 00:10:02.548 --> 00:10:05.629 and epoxy was ruled out completely. 00:10:05.629 --> 00:10:11.966 My next trick was to try the milk glass coating  I stumbled upon through sheer dumb luck. 00:10:11.966 --> 00:10:17.518 I got these table lamps from the Swedish meatball place last year and while they are pretty cool looking, 00:10:17.518 --> 00:10:21.633 having bare light bulbs in your peripheral vision kind of sucks 00:10:21.633 --> 00:10:24.233 so I wanted to frost the glass. 00:10:24.233 --> 00:10:29.823 But not frost it like the translucent kind of frosting, but the opaque white kind of frosting, 00:10:29.823 --> 00:10:37.870 and there weren’t any good guides on how to do this so I just tried equal parts (by weight) water, white craft paint, and PVA glue 00:10:37.870 --> 00:10:40.365 and by golly it worked perfectly! 00:10:40.365 --> 00:10:43.706 The lamps still look great, no cracking or yellowing, 00:10:43.706 --> 00:10:48.606 and if you’re interested in learning more about this  process you can check out the video on Connextras. 00:10:48.606 --> 00:10:54.062 I thought I would try this technique for Christmas lights but using colored paint instead of just white. 00:10:54.062 --> 00:10:59.951 So I mixed some up, dunked the bulbs, and thought that perhaps I had cracked it! 00:10:59.951 --> 00:11:02.112 But then the coating cracked. 00:11:02.968 --> 00:11:09.353 Yeah, not sure if it’s because it was on plastic or what  but the coating shrank and cracked and generally didn’t hold up. 00:11:09.353 --> 00:11:12.271 I also tried just half glue and half paint 00:11:12.271 --> 00:11:15.566 (the water made the mixture a little runnier than I think I wanted) 00:11:15.566 --> 00:11:18.050 but this also didn’t dry well. 00:11:18.050 --> 00:11:23.933 Again, I started with blue and since both of those two techniques didn’t work I promptly gave up. 00:11:23.933 --> 00:11:28.835 Even if this had worked well, it still had that frosted look which I would have accepted 00:11:28.835 --> 00:11:31.765 but wasn’t exactly what I was going for. 00:11:31.765 --> 00:11:34.139 So, back to the drawing board. 00:11:34.139 --> 00:11:40.261 The absolute best end-result I have gotten so far came from transparent craft paint. 00:11:40.261 --> 00:11:44.173 But, it was fiddly and annoying to apply. 00:11:44.173 --> 00:11:48.750 I mean, let’s be real, this whole endeavor is objectively ridiculous. 00:11:48.750 --> 00:11:56.036 I am a ridiculous person who is committed to the bit, but if I’m gonna keep doing this I want something just a little bit easier. 00:11:56.036 --> 00:12:03.126 But then I noticed that one of my bottles of paint - the yellow one that’s been sitting on the shelves behind me for what, two years now? - 00:12:03.126 --> 00:12:06.444 says “Airbrush colors” on it. 00:12:06.444 --> 00:12:09.017 Now, I’ve never had a need for an airbrush 00:12:09.017 --> 00:12:10.935 (usually I use a comb) 00:12:10.935 --> 00:12:15.064 but if that’s what it’s designed for maybe an airbrush would help. 00:12:15.064 --> 00:12:16.733 So I got one! 00:12:16.733 --> 00:12:21.867 Did I just search on Amazon for “airbrush kit” and buy the most obvious one? 00:12:21.867 --> 00:12:23.091 Yep! 00:12:23.091 --> 00:12:25.304 Do I really know how to use an airbrush? 00:12:25.304 --> 00:12:26.448 Nope! 00:12:26.448 --> 00:12:28.068 Did that stop me? 00:12:28.068 --> 00:12:29.059 Nope! 00:12:29.059 --> 00:12:32.334 But having the airbrush is only one part of the problem. 00:12:32.785 --> 00:12:37.214 The other was how to hold the lights to make airbrushing possible. 00:12:37.214 --> 00:12:39.224 Now, as I’ve discussed previously, 00:12:39.224 --> 00:12:43.926 I really don’t care for many of the color combinations on offer today. 00:12:43.926 --> 00:12:49.478 My preference is a simple four-color palette of red, green, blue, and yellow. 00:12:49.478 --> 00:12:52.884 I will accept amber or orange in place of yellow, 00:12:52.884 --> 00:13:00.578 but teals and purples and pinks are completely unacceptable because those are Easter colors and that comes later. 00:13:00.578 --> 00:13:04.008 Those colors do not belong in Christmas light sets! 00:13:04.008 --> 00:13:05.352 Capiche? 00:13:05.352 --> 00:13:12.526 As luck would have it, the very four colors I wanted were available in a set of transparent airbrush paint. 00:13:12.526 --> 00:13:21.968 I bought new paint just in case the old paint was going bad, and that yellow bottle was already separating two years ago so it’s much worse now. 00:13:21.968 --> 00:13:26.558 And if for whatever reason I were to change my mind about color preferences, 00:13:26.558 --> 00:13:30.568 different colors could be made by mixing these primary colors together. 00:13:30.568 --> 00:13:32.811 Just ask your kindergarten teacher! 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:36.837 So, knowing that I’d be spraying a strand of one hundred mini lights 00:13:36.837 --> 00:13:41.148 in my objectively correct preference of red, yellow, green, and blue, 00:13:41.148 --> 00:13:44.717 I took a spare piece of cardboard from one of those Amazon boxes 00:13:44.717 --> 00:13:49.449 and used a single hole punch to make 26 holes along its edge. 00:13:49.449 --> 00:13:52.554 Then I taped over one of them because I only needed 25. 00:13:52.554 --> 00:13:56.561 And I meticulously poked every fourth light through those holes 00:13:56.561 --> 00:14:02.511 and then taped some printer paper to the edges of the piece of cardboard to protect the rest of the set from overspray. 00:14:02.511 --> 00:14:07.354 Then I picked this gravity-fed airbrush from my airbrush kit because that would probably work, 00:14:07.354 --> 00:14:10.369 shook up the blue paint bottle, put some paint in the cup, 00:14:10.369 --> 00:14:11.960 and went at it. 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.084 And by golly, it worked! 00:14:14.084 --> 00:14:15.931 It worked greatly! 00:14:15.931 --> 00:14:18.301 The blue paint was actually a perfect color, 00:14:18.301 --> 00:14:21.461 the airbrush made applying it nearly effortless, 00:14:21.461 --> 00:14:25.760 and after a couple of coats it was exactly what I was looking for. 00:14:25.760 --> 00:14:28.519 Of course the only thing left to do was let it dry, 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:30.002 clean out the airbrush, 00:14:30.002 --> 00:14:36.196 then pull out all the now blue bulbs and shove another quarter of them through the holes to prepare for the next color. 00:14:36.196 --> 00:14:37.900 Then repeat. 00:14:37.900 --> 00:14:40.302 This was still a pretty fiddly process, 00:14:40.302 --> 00:14:43.639 but it’s definitely the least fiddly of any I’ve tried. 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:51.879 In fact the primary fiddle factor was dealing with the light-holding rig while untangling and wrangling and retangling the rest of the strand. 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:53.342 If I were to do this again, 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.031 I would try to find a better way to hold them. 00:14:56.031 --> 00:15:02.847 Maybe a large piece of cardboard with holes made by a drill press or something could tackle five strands at a time - 00:15:02.847 --> 00:15:06.458 though how to keep them organized would be quite the question. 00:15:06.458 --> 00:15:11.378 And the end results, while pretty great,  still reveal a few flaws. 00:15:11.378 --> 00:15:18.528 For one, I had forgotten that the last time I used these paints  the yellow was very much a highlighter yellow 00:15:18.528 --> 00:15:22.341 and it benefitted from adding a bit of red to warm it up. 00:15:22.341 --> 00:15:24.419 I should have done that again. 00:15:24.419 --> 00:15:32.204 This red is also not quite transparent - interestingly I  found the same thing last time with this different brand of transparent model paint 00:15:32.204 --> 00:15:36.095 so my guess is it’s an inherent issue with red pigmenting. 00:15:36.095 --> 00:15:41.758 Another thing to consider is that apparently this paint benefits from heat treatment. 00:15:41.758 --> 00:15:46.355 Whether that can be safely done without melting the plastic caps I don’t know. 00:15:46.355 --> 00:15:49.402 I didn’t try and I’m not going to. 00:15:49.402 --> 00:15:56.387 This year, I am going to actually put this strand outside where it will be exposed both to the Southern sun and the 00:15:56.387 --> 00:15:59.196 just lovely weather we get around here. 00:15:59.196 --> 00:16:04.666 I’ll report back on its durability on the second channel - so maybe subscribe there if you haven’t. 00:16:04.666 --> 00:16:07.685 I’ll try to do one of those community posts too. 00:16:07.685 --> 00:16:09.199 Now, you might ask, 00:16:09.199 --> 00:16:12.204 “why are you doing this to yourself?” and my response would be 00:16:12.204 --> 00:16:15.055 “that’s an excellent question.” 00:16:15.055 --> 00:16:18.891 Broadly, I just want to show that this can be done! 00:16:18.891 --> 00:16:21.752 Yes, maybe I’m just a curmudgeon who’s out of touch, 00:16:21.752 --> 00:16:29.672 but I really would like to use LED multicolored lighting ‘round the holidays because incandescent light sets use a stupid amount of power! 00:16:29.672 --> 00:16:36.453 Last year my power bill doubled for the month of December  merely because I had two C9 sets 00:16:36.453 --> 00:16:41.543 and I wanna say six runs of twinkling lights running for 8 hours  a night. 00:16:41.543 --> 00:16:46.447 That’s ridiculous, especially considering I have an electric car! 00:16:46.447 --> 00:16:51.416 But all the multicolored strands on the market today still look like gamer vomit 00:16:51.416 --> 00:16:56.811 and that’s just not something I want all over my home at any time but especially not the holidays! 00:16:56.811 --> 00:16:59.280 And there’s good news out of the UK! 00:16:59.280 --> 00:17:04.893 A viewer got in touch and sent me pictures of a light strand that is EXACTLY what I’m asking for. 00:17:04.893 --> 00:17:09.232 It’s a set very much like this one but where the diodes are all a nice warm white 00:17:09.232 --> 00:17:15.075 and its coloring comes from the plastic caps that define the shape of the pseudo-bulb. 00:17:15.075 --> 00:17:19.280 In this case, I think the coloring might not be quite as strong as I’d like - 00:17:19.280 --> 00:17:23.751 I worry this is more of a pastel color theme than the rich colors I’m looking for. 00:17:23.751 --> 00:17:28.254 But it shows somebody could make this if they just tried. 00:17:28.254 --> 00:17:33.209 So, one of you in charge of ordering all those lights from whatever factories overseas make them, 00:17:33.209 --> 00:17:36.973 maybe try and steer things in this direction. 00:17:36.973 --> 00:17:40.611 And to the folks at Tru-Tone - you could be those people! 00:17:40.611 --> 00:17:44.717 I will be incredibly happy if I can just... buy these 00:17:44.717 --> 00:17:49.533 and not go through this nonsense just to get some semblance of the things I’m looking for. 00:17:49.533 --> 00:17:56.518 And if somebody finally manages to make this a thing I can get in stores with all the other holiday stuff... 00:17:56.518 --> 00:17:58.722 you all had better buy them! Ok? 00:17:58.722 --> 00:18:04.717 I don’t want to find out that the gross blue-green laser beam lights are actually what you people want! 00:18:04.717 --> 00:18:08.858 I will be so disappointed and you’ll never hear the end of it, I promise. 00:18:08.858 --> 00:18:10.128 Happy holidays! 00:18:10.804 --> 00:18:14.250 ♫ Unexpectedly Christmas Jazz ♫ 00:18:15.805 --> 00:18:18.232 But, multicolored [ ] LED 00:18:18.841 --> 00:18:22.310 I should have them ready to demonstrate. 00:18:23.211 --> 00:18:27.030 Modern LED christmas light sets usually make it… 00:18:27.030 --> 00:18:28.432 what happened there? 00:18:28.815 --> 00:18:31.395 What did you get caught on, you terrible thing? 00:18:31.395 --> 00:18:35.100 …mimicked the relative brightness ratios would be… 00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:36.157 crap. 00:18:37.149 --> 00:18:41.149 I changed the tense of something for no reason [clears throat] 00:18:41.149 --> 00:18:44.690 Different colors could be made by mixing these primary colors together. 00:18:44.690 --> 00:18:46.808 Justk ask your [ppfttah!] 00:18:46.808 --> 00:18:50.761 Different colors could be made by mixing these primary colors together. 00:18:50.761 --> 00:18:52.568 Just ask your tche… 00:18:52.568 --> 00:18:54.299 why am I struggling with that? 00:18:55.065 --> 00:18:58.254 [a jazz rendition of We Wish You A Merry Christmas fades back in] 00:18:59.696 --> 00:19:02.986 Now look at all those pretty twinkling lights. 00:19:02.986 --> 00:19:06.154 Devastatingly, I think Menards has discontinued them. 00:19:06.154 --> 00:19:09.002 Now I don't feel so bad about hoarding them these last few years.