Blog – Holiday Decorating with LED Lights

12VDC LED lights can easily be battery operated. Now we have a rechargeable wireless solution for you.

If you’re into Halloween, the time to start planning your fabulous costume is now. Recently, a youtube video went viral showing the ‘stick man’. A creative Dad had applied flexible LED strip to a black outfit, even creating a circle for the head. In the dark, the LED lights were all you saw. Amazing and fun at the same time. So if you want to start hunting around for a fabulous idea for this Halloween, start browsing now and come to us for everything you need to complete the project. To get ready for the holiday season, we’ve brought in rechargeable battery packs with 3800 mAh and 6800mAH capacity that will power your LED strips for a sufficient amount of time without worry about replacing batteries in the dark. And if you’re going to more than one party in your costume, recharge time is only about an hour. Take a break, charge back up, and out the door, you go again. Rechargeable battery packs aren’t just for Halloween costumes. The 6800 mAh battery pack will run a full meter of flexible

LED strip for about 11 1/2 hours and the 3800 mAh battery pack about 6 1/2 hours. Party planners and florists just love these. That’s ample time to light up a beautiful arrangement or table decoration. And, given the fact that 1 meter of flexible LED strip draws about 600 mA, just think of how many tiny MicroStars you could run. With a draw of only 20mA each, that means you could run 30 of them at the same time as 1 meter of flexible LED strip. Choose red, blue, green, amber or white MicroStars for a delightfully colourful display. The battery box itself is only 3.7″ x 2.4″ x 1.1″, small enough to slip into a pocket or tape under a table. Are you doing a trade show or market display? Keep a spare so you can swap it out as the lights begin to dim. Is there a piece of art you’d like to light but just can’t run a plug? Voila! And how about lit Christmas wreaths? Charge the batteries during the day and pop them in when it gets dark outside. You’ll have vibrant colour all holiday season long. Our store is right on the path to Burning Man. Needless to say, we have a lot of customers who want something temporary for the outside of their motor homes and so forth. These new, higher capacity battery packs were just what the doctor ordered. The Burners can store all of this material and they’re set to go for next year. Need help? Let us know. And we’d love to hear about what you’re doing with this great wireless capability this holiday season.

By: Mary Wecker