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LED Christmas lights - love 'em or hate 'em?
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VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: madires on November 29, 2020, 11:57:27 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 29, 2020, 03:19:21 am ---What has LED lights got to do with the birth of Jesus Christ? Nothing whatsoever.

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It's a way to bring some positive thoughts into the dark winter time.

PS: You're free to use classic Roman oil lamps if you prefer those. :)

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What dark winter time? Last year half our country was on fire at Christmas time. And it is light from early in the morning to late at night where we happily get plenty of Vitamin D for free. As for the Roman oil lamps, they have been a little hard to hard to come by since China started dumping fake knockoffs on the market :D.

themadhippy:

--- Quote ---What has LED lights got to do with the birth of Jesus Christ? Nothing whatsoever
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Indeed,but  the use of light is very much linked to the winter solstice celebrations.
madires:
If you like to get an original oil lamp bring your shovel. I'm living just a few meters away from the Limes Germanicus. Plenty of Roman forts. :)

Gosh, 40°C in Sydney.
madires:

--- Quote from: james_s on November 28, 2020, 09:54:48 pm ---I think that's probably due to regulations in some 240V countries. Here in the US transformer powered miniature lights were never really a thing, they were always just series strings of lamps fed directly from the mains, when LED strings appeared they used the same arrangement with the addition of a ballast resistor.

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I'm not sure, but directly mains powered LED strings should be still allowed over here. My guess is that a low voltage string plus wall wart is cheaper to produce than a fully compliant 230V version.
S. Petrukhin:

--- Quote from: james_s on November 29, 2020, 04:32:33 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on November 29, 2020, 03:19:21 am ---What has LED lights got to do with the birth of Jesus Christ? Nothing whatsoever.

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Virtually none of the Christmas traditions have anything at all to do with the birth of Jesus, but that's beside the point. Many elements were borrowed from existing Pagan holidays, some are much more recent than that. Santa's red & white suit came from a Coca Cola advertising campaign, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was an advertisement for the Montgomery Ward department store chain.

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In Russia, there was no CocaCola when Ded Moroz and Snegurochka appeared. Yes, and even the United States was not.
I do not know their history of appearance.  :)
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