xxnonamexx 3 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 What is the trick to lay out net lights? I purchased Sylvania LED net lights from BJ's and find them to be a Pain in the ...... The plastic covers pop off of them it is ridiculous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jihans 26 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I have yet to find the "trick". I fight with them every year. Every year I say I am going to toss them and just use regular light strings on my bushes and every year I fight with them again. Isn't that the definition of insanity? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Apache Lights 10 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) I'm not sure what you mean by, "the plastic covers pop off"," but if you’re just looking for them to be more even and orderly; I hang them in the summer, to stretch them out. Heat and gravity do the rest. Edited November 21, 2011 by Apache Lights Quote Link to post Share on other sites
urthegman 1 Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 I like the hang them in the summer idea, I have often found the wire difficult to deal with and since I use all LEDs getting the color to match my LED strings was impossible. My solution was to custom build net lights out of LED strings. I now have 400 lights on 3 nets and it was very easy to install them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxnonamexx 3 Posted November 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Well Sylvania makes a crappy set sold at BJ and they have plastic covers over the leds like a regular incadescent bulb but in plastic and they suck. I found the Target net lights much easier to unravel. I am going to stake them into the ground to stretch them since I am covering pachysandra on a hill in my driveway 10 sets should do the trick. Since the rain curtain lights aren't outdoor usable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Radiojones 10 Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 I zip tie mine together and it works well. I can put out about 40 sets of net light in about 1 hour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Glenn Barber 4 Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 A few years back I bought 70 sets of net lights - during the summer I took them out and stapled them (stretched out) to my fence and left them for about a week in the hot sun - your right the will layout nicely over bushes once they are stretched out like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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