LED Holiday Lighting

The LED was first invented in Russia in the 1920s, and introduced in America as a practical electronic component in 1962. Oleg Vladimirovich Losev was a radio technician who noticed that diodes used in radio receivers emitted light when current was passed through them. In 1927, he published details in a Russian journal of the first ever LED. LEDs, including LED holiday lights present many advantages over traditional light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved robustness, smaller size and faster switching. Over the past two years, LED Christams and holiday lights have become the preferred light source for decorating inside and out.

 The Traditional Christmas Light

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first successful practical light bulb, created the very first strand of electric lights. During the Christmas season of 1880, these strands were strung around the outside of his Menlo Park Laboratory. Railroad passengers traveling by the laboratory got their first look at an electrical light display. But it would take almost forty years for electric Christmas lights to become the tradition that we all know and love.

 Commercial Christmas and Holiday LED Lights

The "RY" series commercial LED Christmas light is new to the market and you can't find them in retail stores. They feature small rectifiers on the ends of each string, whereas the previous series had the rectification built into an adapter shared by up to 125 strings. The result is brighter lights and more even brightness over the installation. Connect up to 66 strings of the RY series on one plug. ENERGY STAR® qualified! These commercial LED Christmas light strings are especially durable and suited for very large installations. They have heavy 20 gauge wire, weather-proof compression fitting connectors and rugged construction. LED's are now the standard in energy-efficient professional-quality Christmas light installations. A one-piece construction seals the LED's into the housing resulting in a "vapor-proof" enclosure. Corrosion is a thing of the past.