Xmas tree bulbs - web recommendation?

Difficult, as you need to know the current and/or power rating too. If you don't have the original ratings (e.g. on the box), you'll have to measure it.

Cheapest way is to buy a set after Christmas, and for filament lamp sets, buy a few identical sets, at least one to be sacrificial for the bulbs only. Often, a whole set is costs less than 3 spare bulbs after Christmas.

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Nice tip, especially the "buy a whole set"!

Paul DS.

I hate throwing anything away but LED sets are now pretty cheap, use less power and allegedly last longer.

and don't look nearly as nice - in my opinion

Like buying an inkjet printer. Buy three or four at £30. When the tanks run out, skip the printer and install a new one, cheaper than the £40 for the new tanks.

Which is OK unless the new printers are fitted with 'demo' tanks with not much ink in them.

They got wise to that one, which is why new printers come with special (nearly empty) ink cartridges.

A cunning plan with just two minor flaws. Firstly starting up a new printer takes a lot of ink. As much as half a tank on some models. Secondly all of the manufacturers supply "light" tanks with the printers that have a much smaller ink load than the one sold in the retail packs.

Mine didn't, you still don't get as many pages out of the first set because it has to fill all the pipes and stuff first. With a cheap printer using ~2ml cartridges there won't be much left even if the were full size.

Looked at that website and found that it has the same thing, but with a different numbering system from the ones I did identify on Ebay as being what I wanted - and then found were subtly different - many thanks to John Lewis for stocking lights which are non-standard!

Rob

The set on the tree in my hall (for which I have purchased bulbs from Noma) came from ... John Lewis.

YMMV: I bought some from CPC just before xmas: a set of 120 (LP0399975) which has very nice saturated red, green, yellow and blue LEDs, a set of

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