With easter just months away, Poundland has brought out its latest range of Easter lights styled on eggs and bunnies.
Both sets use 2AA cells to run strings of side emitting cold-white LEDs. 5mm for the eggs and 3mm for the bunnies.
The egg set has eight plastic eggs in pastel easter colours with an LED shoved into the end. The plastic isn't quite as translucent as it could be, but in a dark room they look pretty good, with the side emitting LEDs projecting swirls on the sides of the eggs.
The bunnie lights are in the same style as the Xmas Santa lights with a spherical cover shoved through a floppy prismatic-plastic cut-out. The style makes them quite difficult to place other than leaving them in a randomly landing trail of bunny carnage. However, the real winner with the bunny lights is the transparent ball the lights push into. It's suitable for pushing onto the normal style of 3mm LED strings and looks great on its own. Like a little glass ball with a sharp point of light inside it. I'll probably get some more just for the plastic balls.
Both sets use 2AA cells to run strings of side emitting cold-white LEDs. 5mm for the eggs and 3mm for the bunnies.
The egg set has eight plastic eggs in pastel easter colours with an LED shoved into the end. The plastic isn't quite as translucent as it could be, but in a dark room they look pretty good, with the side emitting LEDs projecting swirls on the sides of the eggs.
The bunnie lights are in the same style as the Xmas Santa lights with a spherical cover shoved through a floppy prismatic-plastic cut-out. The style makes them quite difficult to place other than leaving them in a randomly landing trail of bunny carnage. However, the real winner with the bunny lights is the transparent ball the lights push into. It's suitable for pushing onto the normal style of 3mm LED strings and looks great on its own. Like a little glass ball with a sharp point of light inside it. I'll probably get some more just for the plastic balls.
"The theme this year must have been: making life difficult for Chinese factory workers." Yeah, I think 2015 was the Chinese year of the exploited. It's a cyclical thing, I believe.
They ar simular to the santa lights in that they are sort of crap?
Have you seen the poundland USB vacuum cleaners yet? They have some sort of duel speed controller.
I find the 2xAA holders with switch quite handy too for various things. I have a couple with one or 2 LEDs on a bit of 1mm house wiring (for stiffness) as a cheapo 'snake light' for use behind computers n suchlike
some come with a 3 aa battery holder and they come with a 52 Ohms 5% resistor with they
Those little ends will make nice covers to use in making an incandescent lamp replacement where you can see the actual glass of the bulb. Just sand with some abrasive powder to get them matt and they will diffuse well.