Poundland in the UK always seem to have quite interesting little strings of Xmas lights. Last year they had a version of the fairly recent type where surface mount LEDs are bonded to lacquered copper wires and then dipped in resin to make a robust parallel string of lights. The moist interesting feature was that they had used mostly blue LEDs with a layer of phosphor to make a wide range of colours including a creamy yellw, purple, red, cold white, bare blue and finally bare green LEDs. However the green LED had a slightly lower voltage than the rest of the LEDs, so instead of getting dimmer consistently with the reducing battery voltage the other colours tended to dim out quite quickly leaving the green quite bright.
This year (2014) they have introduced a different type that is probably easier to manufacture because it just uses white LEDs, but dips the soldered LEDs in different coloured resins to provide four colours (red, yellow, green and blue) by colour subtraction filtering. The result is nice consistent intensity that should remain very even as the batteries discharge. The slight downside is that the use of colour subtraction filtering makes them less efficient, but it's a very neat development in these LEDs.

2 thoughts on “Poundland led xmas lights 2014.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ford focus mk2 man says:

    i use the white ones all the time from pound land..xmas just gone i bought about 60 white, 20 blue and 5 multi… i had to go around loads of pound lands to get them as they come in a box with 18 of each colour… but well worth the search.. not one out of all of them has has a dodgey led..

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M3G4UK says:

    Disappointed that mine never sold these, they look fascinating and certainly a bit of a change from the usual packs of 10 ice white LED light strings they normally sell.

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