Re: Xmas is early - with LED lights

["D&SW" <d&sw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, you need two adapters. Prongs to female light socket and male light
bulb base to outlet. Looks ugly but they work fine for Christmas LED
strings. I have cheap "after Christmas" sale clear LEDS under kitchen
cabinets and a coffee table as accent lighting. Socket Rockets work well,
the only problem is hiding them. Besides having no local control sensing
current, they have no DIM capabilities, so work well with CFL bulbs also.

"AZ Woody" <reply@here> wrote in message
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> Wallplug to socket rocket to plug for the xmas lights?
>
> Done some more testing..  A had an Appliance Link, configed to not allow
> local control, and a B&D firewire module...  both reacted like the X10
> modules - the LEDS never go out (get dim, but that's all).
>
> I thinking now of using a 110v relay, controlled by an appliance module.
>
> On the other hand, the current draw on the LED's seems so low, that I
> might just plug them in Dec 1 and leave them on until Jan 2!
>
> D&SW wrote:
>> Use a Socket Rocket instead...no light from LED strings
>>
>> "AZ Woody" <reply@here> wrote in message
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>>> I tried the mods (clipping diode in an appliance and lamp module), and
>>> the leds still stay on!  Might have to go with the "add a night light"
>>> route....
>>>
>>> Neil Cherry wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:59:00 -0700, AZ Woody wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> These are old modules I keep with the Xmas stuff, and I don't mind
>>>>> doing some "surgery".
>>>>>
>>>>> Ya think this is a "local control" issue with the modules?  If so,
>>>>> what's the website that tells you how to hack the module? (I've lost
>>>>> it long ago...)
>>>>>
>>>>> I know I could probably add an inci light and draw enough power to
>>>>> make this work, but that's kind of against the reason I'm using LEDs!
>>>> I was going to give the other folks a bit of a ribbing for not
>>>> giving _the_ site for such information but when I went there it
>>>> wasn't there any longer. So I did a quick search and found his
>>>> new site:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.idobartana.com/
>>>>
>>>> Ido stored the information on cutting the diode in the lamp and/or
>>>> appliance module. BTW, if you're using the Smarthome *linc modules
>>>> you won't need to do that as they use a lot less current to do their
>>>> current sensing.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to update my web pages with the information.
>>>>
>>