These lights are absolutely worth buying just for the caps, as they can be used with many other LED strings. They'd be really nice as illuminated baubles when added to an existing light string on a Christmas (or Halloween) tree.
The driver is functional, but doesn't drive the LEDs at a very high intensity for this large style cap. It has the diode and capacitor needed for driving colour changing LEDs.
I used a string of warm white Poundland garden parasol lights to convert the globes to a brighter warm white.
The different look and sound of this video is because I'm travelling with work and have had to improvise a recording setup in accommodation that is not ideal for recording videos. That said, I quite like the background - but the lighting needs some work.
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