AsTheCurlTurns 1 Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Hello All! I was wondering if anyone has put flickering bulbs in their street lamp blow molds? If so, was it bright and obvious enough to be worth the priciness of the bulb? I have included an example of the molds I am referring to. Thank you!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big J Illinois 481 Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 The Empire lamps..I tried it..didnt like it..was dull for effect. We put 40 watt cool white medium base lights in them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
donna123 188 Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 We have many of the candleabra type flickering bulbs and they are great close up, however not at a distance. Our home is too far from the road to truly appreciate the flicker. We put a clear c-7 in this lamp post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big J Illinois 481 Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 Nice Empire Donna!! We put LED 40 watts daylight in the 2 choir people and LED bulbs in the 2 posts we have. I agree, up close they are nice, but anymore then 20ft , they are washed out. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
donna123 188 Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Big J Illinois said: Nice Empire Donna!! We put LED 40 watts daylight in the 2 choir people and LED bulbs in the 2 posts we have. I agree, up close they are nice, but anymore then 20ft , they are washed out. Thanks Big J. These guys were covered with snow almost to their necks with the last snow storm! We just got rid of most of it and now it's snowing again. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
qberg 158 Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 The little C7 flicker bulbs don't do well in cold weather and are usually packaged as indoor use only. They just cant get warm enough to flicker in the cold. I have DIY posts along the road that I use them in and are fine for warm evenings in NC. An option for a flicker is to use LOR and a normal bulb. I use orange or yellow in the pumkins. Then run a repeating program to create a candle flicker. We do this for Halloween for all our blowmold pumpkins in the yard and it looks incredible. We have well over 20 pumpkins and started by spliting 8 of the LOR outputs to multiple pumpkins. As long as two pumpkins aren't next to each other from the same output no one can tell. I just built 1 line of candle flickering about 20 seconds long, repeating and then adjust the start time for other lines to create the random looking effect. LOR will allow you to simply adjust the intensity of the channels if it ends up too bright so you don't have to go back and reprogram it all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shane page 137 Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 Dont know if it would look good with those style of lamps. I had some similar to the one pictured with the carolers and it looked good because you can see the bulb. It might look good if you tried a yellow bulb or something like that to help give it a flame effect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Knight 12 Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 I used some flame bulbs from Menards, I like how they look. The effect can be easily be seen from the street too. They were $4 or $5 a bulb. I also tried them in the Noel candles, but at that point with so many flames my house looked like the entrance to a dungeon. VID_20191227_174725.mp4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shane page 137 Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 They do look pretty good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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