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led lighting .....48 led bulbs anyone buy them?

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Take a look at the round 48-LED lights at Northern Tool. They run 30 hours on 3 AA and put out a lot of light. I bought 2 for $11.99 each and there is plenty of light and no wiring to have to deal with. I was considering the Hong Kong stirps but found these from another board I am on and they are awesome.

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One string will run non-stop for a couple of days on a fully charged vexilar battery. If you are running them off a battery that is being used for other things as well, the length of time will of course be diminished.

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My BHK lights showed up yesterday. The ship date was the fifteenth and I probably ordered them the 13th or so. So all in all took about two weeks to get them. They look really cool but i have not hooked them up yet. Probably work on that tonight or tomorrow.

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I looked at many different brands of rope lights, nothing I saw could compare to the BHK lights. I'm not sure if I looked specifically at the Scheels lights, but I imagine they are comparable to most of the other rope lights out there.

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I ordered two sets of the 48 white lights from BESTHONLED last night. I didn't get any backorder notice, so I'm hoping to have them by the middle of December if not earlier. I'll let everyone know what I think of them when I get them in and have a chance to put them up in my Guide.

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I had ordered on Monday 2 strips and have gotten this email message back today.

Date Ordered: Monday 26 November, 2007

The comments for your order are [YouNeedAuthorization] is currently in back order(out of stock), we’ll arrange >this item asap.

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will have to use lantern in the mean time....

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Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to invest in this company with all the guys that have ordered up these lights. I ordered (5) 48cm string lights a while back, and they were on backorder at that time too. I don't think I ended up getting them until a month or so after I placed my order. I am very pleased with the light output. I wired up one set in an Otter Den and was surprised that one strip was plenty bright.

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MuleShack, lets cross our fingers that they got in a new shipment on Tuesday and that we will get them fairly soon. If they send out a backorder notice, you would think I would have gotten one too if they didn't have any. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

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I ordered two 48cm strips on 11/1. Put them on my Cabelas credit card. Got home and the wife was panicked and tells me Cabelas called and said someone was trying to charge something on our card in Hong Kong so she told them not to approve the transaction. Once I told her it was me and we cleared things up with Cabelas, I got a notification that the lights were on back order. I got confirmation that they were shipped 11/14 and left the country 11/16. I still haven't seen them. Hope they get here soon. I sure would like to get them installed. With this cold weather, it's making ice fast. Can't wait to get out.

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I thought maybe we lucked out, but I just got the back order notice in my email today. With my luck, now that I have actually found good lights, they will show up next April. tongue.gif For those of you that don't like lanterns, use a headlamp if you have one. I did that when I was by myself quite a bit last year and it works okay. If you don't have a headlamp you should get one anyway! Makes packing up tip-ups and other gear very nice at the end of the day.

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I just got my 2 strings from HonLED on Saturday. I installed them in my otter cabin and am amazed at the light output. I anticipated needing a bit more for over the holes so I built two more lights using 1156 LED's. I don't think I need them. Can't wait to get out.

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Ordered mine 3 dys ago and recieved a back order notice right away. Today I recieved a new notice that the order was being processed. Let's hope that they got some in and are shipping. In the meantime, I also purchased some LED puck lights from Harbor Freight. $5.99 each, 5 hi-intensity bulbs each, run on 3AAA batteries, extremely bright, and last a long time. My son was playing with one and left it on for three days outside in the garage. It still works and is very bright. I guess that I will use those until the BHK lights get here.

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Take a look at the round 48-LED lights at Northern Tool. They run 30 hours on 3 AA and put out a lot of light. I bought 2 for $11.99 each and there is plenty of light and no wiring to have to deal with. I was considering the Hong Kong stirps but found these from another board I am on and they are awesome.

thanks for the 411 on these. Might just try em. On sale for $10.99 BTW how did you hook yours up to your shack?

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