Two years ago I swapped out my old incandescent Christmas tree lights for LED ones. My wife likes seeing lots of lights in the tree so over the years, I had kept adding lights over time, by the time I last used the incandescent ones, I had about 500 lights for small 6 foot tree … it looked great and I had kept patching, fixing and repairing all the lines over time. When I finally took them out the last time, there were enough questionable connections, lights, loose connections, semi bare wires that if I had used them any longer, I probably would have burnt my house down.

Now I have 600 LED lights on my tree … it’s not as temperature warm as it used to … uses about a tenth of the electricity and it looks great … and it is less likely to burn my house down.