Review on 🔌 GDEALER 2 Pack 20ft 60 LED Fairy Lights Battery Operated with Remote Control Timer Waterproof Copper Wire Twinkle String Lights for Indoor Bedroom by Stephanie Smith

Bought these lights on a lightning deal without really deciding what to do with them. I knew I wouldn't use them for a one night stand because that's not how my family works. I wanted lights for Christmas without big electric bills or wires everywhere. In that sense I got what I wanted. I would have preferred multicolored lamps, but the price of these white lamps convinced me to choose transparent ones. I have arthritis and can't climb up to hang streetlights, but that doesn't mean I don't want them there. I definitely know. I chose to decorate my tapestries because I can (barely) reach their tops from a nice flat surface. I went outside with a roll of Christmas wrapping tape to attach the lanterns to the trellis. I was pleased to find out how flexible copper wiring is. I've never had a reason to work with him and found I didn't need anything else. Except of course the 3 batteries per string, which I already installed. I put the tape and scissors back in my pocket. A plastic battery box when 3 AA batteries are in it becomes too heavy to just dangle in the light like an electrical plug, but luckily my trellises had a side fence post which created a natural shelf so I just put them on top placed and left there. Towards evening, as dusk begins to fall, I take out my small remote controls (which are kept inside) and turn on the light. Before bed, I turn them off the same way. As advertised, there are several different settings. I chose one that flashes very slowly and emits a softer yellow light. Once set, the lighting will automatically revert to the settings you selected the last time you turned it on. I used two lights and used the same settings for both, which is good because the same remote turns them both on and off. I mention this in case you are thinking of doing something fancy and big that involves turning successive waves of light on and off. Not sure if you can do this with them but my needs are simple and they work great for me. Here are the cons: First, those batteries. I left my flashlights on for 12-14 hours every night for a week and then the batteries died. I had to go out and replace them. Essentially this means that in two weeks I used 12 batteries for two strings. Ouch! If you're planning a larger light display, you'll need to buy even more batteries, and there's no way to splice the strings, meaning each string's batteries need to be replaced about weekly. Also consider points related to battery boxes. We've had some pretty windy days here in Seattle. The battery boxes were exposed to rain, snow and at some point I chipped off a thin layer of ice from the battery box on top. Therefore, they will put up with nice weather. However, my fence is only 15 feet from my front window; This is an urban location so the batteries are fairly sheltered there, between the house and the fence. If yours is in a more open area and exposed to extreme weather I have no idea what will happen. Maybe they'll detach from the wire; maybe they are fine; maybe something else will happen that I haven't thought of. But it worked fine for me. Now let's take another look at the remote control and its role here. I was lucky; Although I couldn't turn on the lights under my porch's covered shelter, which is about 20 feet from the battery boxes and also at an angle, I found that I could hold the remote straight into the window pane since the lights are directly across from them my front window and they work from inside the house. That's pretty cool to me, but to you, unless your lights are within 15 feet or less of a straight line from an interior window or covered area, you might get tired of being out in the damn rain or snow twice a day to stomp. to turn these things off and on. Of course, you can also just leave it on, but then you may have to change the batteries more often. As the season draws to a close I'm not sure I'll be using these lights next year. I have a lot of great electric lights in my garage, but we also have power cords and high utility bills. And those lights themselves are far from reliable, as most of us already know. When it comes to fighting, money decides for me. I want to compare my December electricity bills for this year and last year, which I can't do until my bill comes in (which would be too soon anyway). I think my two week old copper fairy lights cost me 12 batteries and my box of 20 Revain batteries is $8.99. I suspect my electric bill will save a difference of more than $10 this way, so even if I used up the whole box it would still be cheaper than electricity. But then again, I can tell I'm wrong. But if these flashlights have really saved me money — or even if they've even paid off with what I spent running my flashlights last year — I'll top up batteries and use them again.