25ft Warm White OptiCore LED C7 Christmas Lights - Commercial Grade Twinkle String Lights for Outdoor Holiday Decorations, Green Wire (25 Bulbs) | Perfect for Christmas Trees, Roofs, Windows & Yard Decor

Over the years, hundreds of incandescent C7s and C9s drove up our California electricity bill which is umpteen times higher than other states.Our Christmas tree was baking under the heat of 125 C7s.Even so, I was very reluctant to switch to LEDs because the ones I saw had blues that looked purple and the lights were all dim.My husband researched and found these lights and we are now on Wintergreen LEDs—sorry, PG&E!I am fooled by how realistic they are to incandescent bulbs!The lights are bright and true to their colors! BLUE IS BLUE! Red is a crisp red, not orangey. Orange is vibrant. Green has a nice bright glow, unlike other dull Christmas lights.Wintergreen’s Amazon store has a lot of replacement bulbs packs that feature colors like gold which were difficult to find as an incandescent bulb, plus twinkle lights in every color!!! Wintergreen also has pink and purple for those that decorate their homes for Valentine’s Day (if that’s your thing).Quality is top-notch! Our neighbor left our basement door open because she wanted a place for a feral cat to sleep. Pfft. All of the outdoor Christmas stuff showed evidence of dewy mornings. The C9s looked great—void of any rust or electrical issues!My kids could be better at handling the lights. They yank, drag and drop them on the floor and driveway. My 7YO girl stepped on a bulb. It did not break and the socket was undamaged. I can only imagine how much more she would have cried if anything broke.This is our second year with the lights and they are doing very well. The lights are up the day after Thanksgiving to the weekend after New Year’s. The C9s run for eight hours a night. The C7s are on from dawn until after midnight (my husband and I have different sleep schedules). We have only had to replace a single C9 out of hundreds of bulbs.To create light strands with a mix of opaque, solid and twinkle lights, we bought a variety of light strands (multi solid, multi opaque, multi twinkle), a couple light strands sans bulbs and a few replacement bulb boxes.Now that we have reliable C9 LEDs that can be seen from a distance we are going to put a Christmas tree of lights on the back of the house—three stories tall!