LED Bubble Lights 

2023. Still no LED bubble lights to be had. I'm worried I won't live long enough to see these available. Someone out there is smart enough to pull this off.

You need to patent these! I am so looking for led bubble lights! Love them.

@Equus4Prowl That's why we have ebay.... You do need a 110V adaptor though, or if you're technical you can change the internal lamps.

I hope that these LED bubble lights will be mass produced and made available to the market! Thanks for the video!

They are very cool now start manufacturing them . I want 10 sets

someone really need to buy your idea and make them so we can all enjoy them. I suppose I could make some myself also. Anyhow great project turned out beautiful!

Is that resistor dropping the current to the LEDs? With 7 LEDs in series the resistor would still be dropping 90V on a 110V supply. Even at just 10mA that's still almost a watt of power.

Fantastic. I wish you were my neighbor so I could have you whip up a set for me. I Have an original set from 1948 and now I am having to replace light bulbs and having to modify the plastic to make new bulbs fit into the sockets. It is working but the bad thing about old bubble lights is they burn HOT! This is a great idea.

I made a great discovery over the weekend. Frequently bubble lights will have trouble starting to bubble. So, how to get them to bubble? It is quite easy: Let the bulb warm up for 4 or 5 minutes until some of the other bulbs have started to bubble. Unscrew the one that isn't bubbling and hold it with the glass tip pointing down for about 15 seconds. Once you turn it back up, it will bubble like crazy. Then just screw it back in to the socket! I suspect it is because they don't get quite hot enough and the fluid just swirls. When you turn it upside down, the hot bulb heats up just the glass bottom of the tube making it very hot compared to when the liquid was in contact! I got two strings of these at JC Penny last year after Christmas. They were *way* too expensive at full price. It is very nice that you can change the bulbs when they burn out. They look quite nice and work well.

Beautiful job! Can’t believe no one has mass marketed LED Bubble Lights yet.

This is surpassingly cool. An added advantage of this setup is that since it undoubtedly runs cooler than the original lighting, the plastic in the lamps will last a lot longer. I just wish I had the electronics skills to do something like this myself; I've got lots of dead antique bubble lights that I'd love to bring back to life.

Awesome job! Just great... Since the LEDs are just PN junctions they'll never blow! You should sell these on ebay and make some money...

That’s very smart! Good for you! Lovely bubble lights - remember them from my youth. Thanks for sharing this video clip. 🎄🌺🌺🎄

Great project! It's a shame nobody is manufacturing these; bubble lights are my favorite kind, but we've switched everything over to LEDs to save power.

Nice work man!!!

Chris. It’s 2022. You really need to start making and selling these!

This is just wonderful! I remember bubble lights on our tree when I was a child. Do you have instructions for making one?

They look great using an LED. I miss these from my childhood but I am searching Ebay to locate some more. Regards from the UK

That is so awesome!!!

never heard of bubble lights before but really really want them now...

Nice, Chris! :-) Long time since I was on the collectors email thingy. Great to see innovations still being made.

I was just thinking about doing this very thing due to frustration of dead bulbs and replacement availability. Only 6 years late on originality of concept, lol. It still counts if I didn't know it had be done. lol. Thanks for the vid also those are really cool versions. I've not seen any like that.

Note at this point bubble lights can be relamped with LEDs, a number of which can be purchased on Amazon and elsewhere. You just need to make sure the LED is 2 watts in order to generate enough heat. It should also be less than ~1.9" long in total (for Radkos) and E12 base. The electrical foot contact of the bulb can be extended with solder if needed. Lastly, since LEDs are much brighter, you can adjust the brightness by wrapping whichever parts of the bulb in electric tape to block some of the excess light if desired. The Radkos look amazing in LED and its worth the time and effort if you love bubble lights!

Chris. I just did my annual search to see if there are LED bubble lights available this year. Looks like you're still the Lone Ranger. If you don't plan on patenting or marketing this, could you at least include a parts list and instructions so that non-electrical folks like me could make a set? Like many, I love bubble lights, but have quit putting any incandescent lights on my tree because of fire hazard as the tree dries out. I bet I'm not the only one who would send you 5 bucks for a parts list, where to purchase the parts, and a set of instructions. Tim

Very cool. Any plans on mass producing these and making them commercially available?

This looks spectacular!

I would love a parts list to do this to my bubble lights when the bulbs burn out so I can re lamp them with leds

I knew somebody would solve this ! ......... Thanks!

Once again Chris, you've stopped thinking outside the box.......YOU JUST THREW THE BOX AWAY!!

Love it Chris !! Nice work..

@starchildstrider Thanks for watching- I have more bubble light stuff coming-

@Christmasmemories1 .... Thank you very much! There will be more Christmas lighting experiments and projects coming.

Thinking of a factory forgetting to suck the air out of incandescent bulbs made me chuckle a bit too much. It's like hearing about an airplane factory that forgot to put wings on their planes.

If you could film a how to step by step video on how to convert a Radko bubble light to LED I would SO appreciate it. I have no electrical background and a training video would help so many of us who would love to learn how to do this...Where to buy the parts etc.. how to separate the bubble light housing etc.. Thank You and I look forward to hearing from you..

very cool,i love bubble lights!

Where do you get the LED circuit boards. I have bubble light that would like to use more often. What a good idea.

Hi Chris, somebody posted this link on my Facebook Xmas page, ( we have just over 4 thousand members now ) anyway, wow ! It would be awesome if you posted a little video of these again, maybe with them off, so we can see the circuit board and the LEDs you put on it. The circuit board looks like something you cut with pliers perhaps ? from a larger circuit board so it would fit into the base of the bubble lights. Would super love to see this ! as would many others. I see a lot of comments there you have never answered which is a pity. Answering comments keeps a video alive and gives your video more views, as more people tend to talk about it. Anyway amazing, I am impressed with your handy work Chris !

I have often wondered about weather it would be possible to get the tubes to bubble with a resistor, very interesting. I wonder if you could convert an older series set to work in the same way.

that is awesome, but looks like if you had a lot of them to convert over it would hit your pocket, but hay if I saw some in a store I would buy a few sets.

You're a genius!

Nice work Chris. I watch your video every year and wonder they'll be marketed. Still nothing, so I may need to make my own. What led drop-in module are you using, how many watts and where'd you get it? Dealextreme?

@pwnmaster8642 .... I wish I could. Since these were discontinued, I have not been able to find any more to convert. I am working on the Noma C6 Bisquits and have a set of those on test now.

Chris, any chance at all of a How To video about how to do this? I have a rare Halloween Candlebara also from Radko. The bulbs for these are a shorter length T6 shape and are completely unavailable. There are no replacements.

You should get a patent and make these since LED lights are becoming popular

I would love to convert some of my old paramounts to use LEDs, have you thought about selling a conversion kit for DIYers?

very nice

Why not patent this wonderful discovery and sell your process to the Radko company? So so many people would want to buy your bubble lights. Have you tried to get these manufactured? Please let me know. Many Thanks...

COOL

You should market these I would buy them.

Good one

very cool!

AMAZING !!

Hi Chris, Do you have a copy off the circuit board and component's list, my husband is a electrician and says he will have a go if he has the list off component's. This would be well appreciated... Regards Denise.....

Love it.

Chris. I'm back again with my annual search to see if there are LED bubble lights available this year. Looks like you're still the Lone Ranger. If you don't plan on patenting or marketing this, could you at least include a parts list and instructions so that non-electrical folks like me could make a set? Like many, I love bubble lights, but have quit putting any incandescent lights on my tree because of fire hazard as the tree dries out. I bet I'm not the only one who would send you 5 bucks for a parts list, where to purchase the parts, and a set of instructions.

@fortyfiveplayer no i have a set i got from lowes and they bubble like those just fine i don't know if there LED's though.

@noma4jon - Hi- Sorry for the late reply! Sometimes messages escape for a while. I thought of a kit, but because the original Paramount "ring decos" are so fragile, it might be a disaster. I am doing the Noma C6 Bisquits now, and they look promising.

WHERE TO BUY? ANYWAY I LIKE IT. WHAT ABOUT RBG CHANGE COLOR LIKE RAINBOW?

LEDs produce enough heat to boil the ether? Oh, you are cheating using a resistor. Clever. Yes full wave bridge rectifier makes them much better - and appearing brighter than if just 30 illuminations/second. Need to find the liquid which made much bigger, fewer, slower bubbles.

@fortyfiveplayer they sell these now!

Anyone figure out how to replicate this? I'd love to convert mine to LED.

Chris, it your still into doing the conversation, let me know, I have at least 3 displays to change. just let me know, you have my email.

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