AVANLO LED Outdoor String Lights with Plastic Bulbs, Upgrade 50FT Garden Patio String Lights Outdoor Festoon Lights with 30+2 E12 Bulbs for Indoor & Outdoor Décor Wedding Patio Cafe Party

Bulbs very dim

Stop searching! You found the best festoon lights at the best price! You can stop your festoon lights research right here because you found the best ones!! Here is all you need to know (and believe me, I’ve done my research, searches all of Amazon, got the t-shirt and spreadsheet!!)... (I own ten sets) - Firstly, the quality, effect and look is beautiful - they have the design and warm feel you’re looking for. - Plastic bulbs, not glass, and crystal clear - ...So they don’t smash when you are installing them (or when changing the bulb) like the horror stories of other product reviews I read. - ...Which means you can leave them up all year round, wind, rain or snow! - LED - ...So they cost next to nothing to run and are safe at 0.6w per bulb - ...And don’t get me started on their lifespan of 30,000 hours - ...That’s three and a half years - ...Or 5,000 evenings (dusk til midnight!) - ...And when a bulb does go (in 2033) you can replace them because they’re standard E12/G40 screw in bulb fittings - ...Which are better than other festoon lights that use the smaller G30 - these slightly larger G40’s are a better proportioned bulb giving the effect you want outdoors - They have the most bulbs per metre - ...Therefore, the lowest cost per bulb - ...With 27 bulbs on 30ft (9 metres) of cable - ...That’s one bulb each foot, or three per metre. - You can connect up to 49 lengths! - ...Yes! That’s 1,323 lights in total - ...Over a distance of 40,000 feet!! - ...And they first screw together! - They are mains driven with no transformer - ...Meaning you can hard wire them into outside lights with no need for an outside socket - ...Or use in a waterproof socket with no bulky transformer to fit in! - They have a hook instead of eyelet - ...Meaning hanging and removing is easier, not having to thread them onto string/wire and they’ll hook to plants or wire easily If I could change one thing it would be to have a dimmer to dial up and down the brightness. Our garden has existing up/down lights that are each 3W and provide a nice 2700K light. These festoon lights are each a tiny 0.6W and when in a row with 27 others, and with ten other lengths connected together, obviously produce a lot of light. They are still the same ‘romantic’ soft yellow that you want, but if installed in a small area m they light up my patio in their own right - I could easily turn off my other up/down lights and these festoons produce easily enough for a garden party. They really are the best you can buy and at the time of buying they are starting to sell out quickly because spreadsheet-minding people like me are realising these are easily the best. And no, I wasn’t paid for this review :-) *difficult to do them justice in a photo due to under/over exposure so I took one of each. In the photo you can see just about three of our ten lengths connected together.

I have the 1.2 Watt lights and they are perfect for my scenario. Avanlo offer a 3M extension lead only but I sourced a 10M extension lead from another brand (Airsnigi) as needed a longer lead on Amazon that fits fine (at first I thought it did not but it does). I am using this in conjunction with a Candeo dimming smart plug (only recently realised these were a thing) which is amazing. I have a hue bridge so chose the Zigbee option rather than the Wifi version and I can control the brightness and set a schedule in the hue app. Although the listing does not mention that the lights are dimmable they work fine with this setup. Very happy, perfect setup for me. Added an RCD plug for safety as it is 240V AC outdoors.

These lights look really good around the garden. Nice and bright.

The lights are bright and extension cable essential addition. Only reservations are: Cannot see on Amazon identical replacement bulbs, although two extra supplied. The cable is flimsy for outside mains supply something which Amazon should give serious consideration as questionable if this meets UK standards. Would have given 5 stars otherwise.