Lighted artificial Christmas trees

[ahofle]

Our tree was pretty much on its last leg last year and it's time to finally buy a new one.  I've been checking out all the major stores in the hope of finding something a little more advanced than the same old plain white lights or lame constant blinking 4 color LEDs.  One can get on ebay and buy a huge roll of RGB LED strips and a controller for various patterns, fading, etc for next to nothing so I figured someone must have started selling such a thing in a tree, but I can't find anything!  Can anyone recommend something like this?  I've half tempted to build my own.

[jdbailey1206]

Well ahofle you can get one idea for a controller over here at this build.  I found this on ebay.  And the video can be found on youtube.  Or just reference below for the video.  Hope this is what you are looking for.

[ahofle]

Yeah that's exactly what I mean, except pre-wired into a tree.  I guess it has to be a BYO solution.

[lilshawn]

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah that's exactly what I mean, except pre-wired into a tree.  I guess it has to be a BYO solution.

You've gotta be careful about the strips.....  light strings look good on a tree.... those plastically rope lights... not so much.  Also there is a weight issue even on the artificial trees.

[ark_ader]

I just picked up a nice 4 foot multicoloured for $20.

I could not make one for that price.