Tru-Tone LED Christmas lights, recreating a vintage incandescent.

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My overview of my Tru-Tone that I purchased. The are LED Christmas lights that look like vintage incandescent bulbs. Also the lighted star and deluxe wires. An overview of the Classicolor and the Jeweltone bulbs. I also preview the standard wire and the Deluxe wire. I also preview the Star. Finally I compare the LED verse incandescent at night.
0:00 Tru-Tone overview
0:51 Tru-tone vs. GE
4:00 Tru-Tone Jeweltone Bulbs overview
4:38 Tru-tone classicolor C-9
6:00 Tru-Tone Classicolor unboxing
8:00 Tru-Tone Jeweltone colors
10:56 Tru-Tone Star
11:21 Tru-Tone S-14 sign bulbs
12:22 Tru-Tone Deluxe Cable
15:00 Tru-Tone twinkle bulbs
17:00 Tru-Tone colors Day vs. Night
18:35 Tru-Tone Jeweltone day vs. night
20:20 Tru-Tone Led verse incandescent at night.

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@jaystus 4 месяца назад

Update: How they have held up Did they Fade? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gAGlFuBsXzk.html

@MillerThriller66 8 месяцев назад

I’m a huge fan of these. Never thought I would get obsessed with Christmas lights.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Same here. 😂 didn’t realize it was something I would get into

@kimalonzo3363 8 месяцев назад

Blue lights are my fave! So tranquil.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

They are great

@AVC.1111 6 месяцев назад

20:00 Such a sweet story. They do make a big difference (spreads beauty and happiness) and I’m glad you go all out!

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Thanks. Definitely worth it.

@dynatrak 8 месяцев назад

Very nice demonstration. This will be my third year using these, and they are much better than the LED lights sold at box stores. I still have quite a bit of incandescents in the display, too. These are quite pricey, so I always keep them stored in the original boxes, when not in use. Yes, I look forward to when they release twinkle bulbs!

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

I hope as more people buy them prices can come down.

@603me. 8 месяцев назад

@@jaystusThe shipping is the big issue. The incentive is to order more to lessen the impact of shipping, but obviously that adds up. I hoping they eventually do a mini light as well.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

@unhfreak yes, shipping price was my biggest issue. And no options except the very expensive option. It’s already expensive.

@dynatrak 8 месяцев назад

@@jaystus Would be fantastic to see these sold in Ace Hardware or somewhere like that, in the future. Should be more affordable that way.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

I agree.

@davidpar2 6 месяцев назад

The tru tone led inside the bulb almost resembles a carbon filament. Finally some attractive led bulbs

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Yes, finally

@stevie68a 6 месяцев назад

When I was 13 back in 1963, I made my mother buy a silver tree. You were supposed to use a "color wheel" to light it, but it looked lame to me. So I used C7 twinkle lights with a spinning topper. The effect was dazzling.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

That’s interesting I just learned what a color wheel was this week. The light bulb behind like colored plastic?

@monaonassis6346 7 месяцев назад

Great video. Just ordered my first two sets from them today. Hoping they can one day make the glass, translucent mini lights we’ve all loved over the years but make them so they’re not ugly, like current LED -Multi-lights

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Mini lights would be great. Yes, current led are hard to look at sometimes

@mikekeller491 7 месяцев назад

My grandmother gave me about 8 25 bulb string of USA GE bulbs...D14;s D15's & D27 bulbs. Nothing to this day compares to them to this day except holiday bright lights blue LED bulbs. Yes they were 10 watts per bulb but they made a huge statement back in the day. They actually lit up the yard brilliantly! I think this should be their standard in my opinion. I wish they would.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

That’s amazing. I agree. The older bulbs were beautiful. These are the closest I have seen seen to be close to that great style.

@deborahlee7975 7 месяцев назад

Thanks - this review and demonstration is VERY helpful, and I love your passion for Christmas lights! What a sweet story at the end ~ so touching. My daughter (teenager) and I spend a lot of time together every year driving all around to look at all the pretty lights...it would definitely be a sad day were no one to put up Christmas lights.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

I love how they bring joy to people.

@youdontknowme5969 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for showing their additional colors. I was really curious about how their teal and purple would look.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Two of my favorite colors

@dwsheffer 8 месяцев назад

I bought some teals last year and really like the soft color they give off.....

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

@@dwsheffer yeah, I wish the camera could show the light better.

@KevboKev 6 месяцев назад

I fell in love with these bulbs last year, and I ended up getting 4 more boxes of the multi-color jewel tone with their darker cobalt blue during their "blue" presale. I know they said it was a mistake, but I think these darker blue bulbs are so much better looking. I really wished they kept them like that. I regret not buying an entire box of just the darker blue, but I wasn't sure how they would look in person, so I believe they were all gone by the time I received my order.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Yes, I liked the blue too. I picked up so of the blemished blue during the presale. I really like the new dark teal

@TediChannel23Ja 8 месяцев назад

❤❤i love retro christmas incandescent lights great video

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Same, such a smoothing light.

@mattlewicki7024 7 месяцев назад

Tru Tones are Great. I do a 10-12' fresh cut tree and generally use about 225 C7s on it. With incandescent it pulled a bit more than 1500 watts, had to split it over 2 circuits. At today's electric rate it cost about $1 to light is for 4 hours. Last year I splurged and bought 125 Tu Tone C7s and 25 off brand from Amazon. This year I bought 50 more Tru Tone bulbs for an entire LED tree. Doing the math I'll go from1500+watts to about 100 watts no more space heater drying my tree out and I can light it for 8 hours for $0.16! Plus it looks indistinguishable from the old incandescent!

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

It’s crazy how much less electricity they use. My roofline is about 60 watts total now.

@dwaynewood1795 8 месяцев назад

I ran across these in a yard sale 3 years ago got 10 strands for $5 had to have them, they look better on house than newer strands of led C-7. C-9 lights.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

That’s awesome! Some of the LED look really bad. They really do look great.

@svm5543 6 месяцев назад

This is insane!!! I wonder if the seller didn't really know what they're worth. I bought one strand for the novelty because im dying to try them out and paid almost 90 for one strand with shipping

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

3 years ago doesn’t really fit. The company is only 3 years old.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

They definitely ruin a budget fast.

@dwaynewood1795 6 месяцев назад

The strands that I bought at yard sale are old style vintage with the old style bulbs. I replaced all of the old incandescent bulbs with led bulbs. Led bulbs cut down on electric bill especially when running thousands of lights, but always liked the old style stranded parallel thermal green wires versus the newer style of wires that have 3 wires running parallel loosely.

@simeonchristensen5551 7 месяцев назад

im really injoy christmas lights

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

They are great!

@SlartiMarvinbartfast 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video, still waiting for Tru-Tone to make some LED MINI lights .......... apparently they've been trying for some time but that's all I've heard.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, and I agree, I saw technology connections just did another video on trying to color mini lights. Always a fun watch. He found a company that was close.

@steveashcraft718 6 месяцев назад

Wish they or somebody would make Led blinking bulbs.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Same

@danbowen710 6 месяцев назад

If you haven't already, a little dielectric grease on the bulb base can help prevent corrosion outdoors 👍

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, for the advice . I ended up adding rubber gaskets this year. If those don’t work I might try that next year.

@user-yn1ko1ch3b 5 месяцев назад

I'm surprised for the price that the lights aren't nickle based like others are .

@jaystus 5 месяцев назад

@user-yn1ko1ch3b that’s a good point. I used rubber gaskets this year. I haven’t taken them off my house yet. So hopefully they helped stop Corrosion.

@user-yn1ko1ch3b 5 месяцев назад

@jaystus I have used vivid core faceted bulbs that are half the cost of TT bulbs and they have nickle plated threads. They are not classic opaque though.

@jaystus 5 месяцев назад

@user-yn1ko1ch3b yeah, I haven’t used them in person, but I have seen them. They are nice bulbs too. Just a different look. Really just depends on the look a person is going for.

@ryan61384 7 месяцев назад

When you get a chance and you have the funds it would be cool to see your house lit up like Clark Griswalds from Christmas Vacation. But with the Tru-Tone bulbs.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Imagine how much money that would be 😂 and I have a small house

@electron2601 7 месяцев назад

If I ever won the lottery it would be all true tone C9 lightsets on my house.

@603me. 8 месяцев назад

I am an incandescent guy, and generally hate the look and color of LEDs. But I saw the Tru Tone last year and got 25 classicolor c7 to mix in on my tree. They were so good and I just placed my order today for both c7 and c9 this year. It'll be the first chance I get to light the house.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

My preorder comes today for this year, I’m excited to open it, even though I know what’s in it 😆

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

That’s great I didn’t know the store opened, it was closed last night.

@603me. 8 месяцев назад

@@jaystus I've been checking back every day as I missed the pre order.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

@unhfreak I just checked out the site. Looks like it’s mostly all set up. I picked up a paid of the clearance blue that we’re not manufactured right in the presale.

@603me. 8 месяцев назад

@@jaystus I haven't bothered lighting the house before, as we have a typical 70s split entry with the most boring roof line. But this year we had a 6x12 front porch added with a gable end facing the street. I had them add two outlets under the porch roof so I can just plug in and run from there. I'm going to add a zip plug to the string on the porch roof to tap off to run a string along the eaves.

@teslatrooper85 8 месяцев назад

There is actually a difference between flasher bulbs and twinkle bulbs. Flasher bulbs cut the current when they turn of, twinkle bulbs short the filament out. Flasher bulbs flash the whole string with one flasher bulb, twinkle bulbs flash individually - but they influence each other slightly. When one twinkle bulb is off the other bulbs see more voltage and are slightly brighter.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Thanks, for the clarification. yes, I definitely meant twinkle. Hopefully they can figure it out.

@gorak9000 7 месяцев назад

That's only true with mini lights which are wired in series. All of the C7/C9 bulbs are wired in parallel and all take 120V directly - there's no "flasher bulb" for c7/c9 strings that flash the whole string unless you plug the whole string into something that flashes it

@Name-so9ns 7 месяцев назад

what spacing did you use for your c7 lights on your door? looks like maybe 9" or 6"? they look great!

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Thanks, they are 9 inch spacing

@JP-uu2rw 8 месяцев назад

the cobalt blue changes were on the Jewel Tone (transparent), not the opaque colors

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Gotcha, thanks. I’m excited to see them.

@ericnewton5720 6 месяцев назад

I love the jewel tone but they (especially blue) sun bleached hard (like almost went completely clear on the up facing side) with just one season. I’m currently testing the opaque C9’s on a 25 light strand to see if the opaque blue ones last longer.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

Yes, my jeweltone blue did the same. The solid color did much better.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

I should spray a few jeweltone with a uv protectant and leave them out. Just for fun

@robertvincent5019 8 месяцев назад

Where did you get that star for the tree topper? i did not see it on tru tones site

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

They sold them last year. Maybe when the store opens this year, they will show up.

@dewback1975 8 месяцев назад

All you need now if a nice Lionel train around the Christmas tree ,ho scale and then you’ll spen time and money with some cool accessories 🤔😂❤️👍

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

That sounds cool Haha, if only I had a budget left. These took it all 😂

@kimalonzo3363 8 месяцев назад

Oooolala!

@UFO4X 7 месяцев назад

Great video! I just ordered some of these lights! Where did you get that retro C7 Christmas star? It’s nice!

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

That’s also from trutone last year, but I don’t see it on their website yet this year.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

I hope you like them too, never thought I would like them so much. Or that do many people also do.

@UFO4X 7 месяцев назад

@@jaystus Yeah, I’ve always been into Christmas lights since a wee child. My parents used to put them up every year from 1964 when I was born until I was old enough to take them over and it was then that the whole obsession started. That was 1973. I’ve been playing with them ever since! Merry Christmas!

@UFO4X 7 месяцев назад

I just watched this video again and I was surprised to see that the tru tone blue faded. I thought that was part of the whole benefit of these lights was that they don’t fade? I do know that the Opticore bulbs do not fade, however they aren’t perfectly translucent.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

@@UFO4X yes the jeweltone blue did a little. They do mention it on their website. It’s a new blue this year, so maybe that will help. Opticore is colored plastic so it would take a really long time to fade. And has a different look. I assume because it’s painted/dyed glass that why. Not really sure the method.

@point29 7 месяцев назад

I’m going to add some dielectric grease to my strings. Should keep the corrosion out.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

I have heard that as an option too, especially for plugs. I hope it works. I used the rubber gaskets. This weekend. We will see if they work.

@nicksgarage2 6 месяцев назад

Nice review. I've always been interested in these but already have lots of sets of C9 style LED lights that I use around my roof. The part I struggle with is surrounding my garage doors. Two strings don't quite make it but I don't want to add a third as I have to do something with all the left overs. And I like your mix with the blinking incandescent ones. I want to make a custom set that fits just right. Do you have a recommendation for sockets? I see lots of cheap ones on Amazon.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

I get mine from Christmas designers. Website Then cut them to exact length. Was an investment but looks so clean

@nicksgarage2 6 месяцев назад

@@jaystus interesting stuff on that site. Dangerous!

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

@nicksgarage2 what do you mean?

@nicksgarage2 6 месяцев назад

@@jaystus just that I could see buying a bunch of stuff. I'll look again in the summer.

@jaystus 6 месяцев назад

@@nicksgarage2 oh yes definitely.

@RoySATX 5 месяцев назад

Until the C7s randomly, and slowly twinkle they don't have the same charm as the vintage. Getting the color and warmth correct is a damn fine start, mind you, but the C7s must twinkle, slowly, randomly, and with the same fade-in/fade-out. Especially at the price being charged for these, they ought to twinkle and take out the trash.

@MrScottie68 8 месяцев назад

I don’t know, at the current prices for these tru-tone bulbs, it would take several years for me to just break even with savings from reduced electrical usage. I think I’ll stick with the old fashioned incandescent bulbs for now.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Yes. Definitely. They have to last too go hopefully get the money back. But plugging hundreds into a string is nice.

@teacfan1080 7 месяцев назад

It's not even measuring on your watt meter. Since your watt meter reads to the tenth of a watt, these bulbs aren't even pulling a 1/10th of a watt. That would probably be right for just one LED bulb.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Definitely not like incandescent

@gorak9000 7 месяцев назад

I've gotten into programmable LEDs and doing a huge show sequenced to music outside, but there's something nostalgic and timeless with the "old-school" bulbs even though they're now LED. My tree inside is still 100% incandescent lights - both mini lights and c7's

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Same here on the nostalgic part. I would like to someday to something programmable. These should work I think depending on the controller. I do use Twinkly lights too. Those turn off and the trutone stay on all night.

@gorak9000 7 месяцев назад

@@jaystus Twinkly is kinda neat, but also really expensive for what you get. Once you get into programmable, it's easy to get into thousands and thousands of pixels, and every year you want to add more, but that also means changing your sequences to add in the new stuff. It's a LOT of work, especially if you do sequences from scratch. Most people just buy their sequences and you end up with the same sequences / songs in every programmable show you go look at. And a lot of the music that people sequence too is not really traditional christmas music either - too much wub wub

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

@gorak9000 some I see are basically concerts. Very impressive though. I just have a few sets of Twinkly on a few bushes. One set the last 3 years. They are expensive. I have thought about just playing with light software and seeing if I can figure that out. I think some have like xlights a free version that I can mess with on the computer. Not really sure.

@gorak9000 7 месяцев назад

@@jaystus XLights is free / open source. It's become the de-facto standard in the sequenced light community. I think there's still a few holdouts using one of the other packages like Vixen, but not many. XLights is pretty simple to figure out the basics, but can be challenging to get from idea to figuring out how to implement it in XLights when you get into more complex effects. Just note that when you first start, there's a button on the toolbar which enables / disables actual output to light controllers (vs just simulating on screen) - It took me FOREVER to find that button when I first started, and was wondering why I wasn't getting any data out to any of my controllers. Once you get bigger, you'll want to run your sequences from a dedicated controller not directly from XLights, so that's why there's a button to disable the output in XLights.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

@@gorak9000 thanks! So many helpful people. If I could just play around with it on a computer that would be fun

@rrotwang 3 месяца назад

Any blinkers ?

@jaystus 3 месяца назад

Not yet. I still us the incandescent twinkle bulbs with them

@bobross3080 7 месяцев назад

Where can you buy the True-Tone bulbs?

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Their website tru-tone . Com

@mickerlou 7 месяцев назад

U have a link where to buy

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

Tru-tone.com RU-vid won’t let me link

@realrobertjohnson 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this video! I just discovered Tru-Tone about a week ago as a started researching LED bulbs - last year I found Novelty Light's version, but will be going with Tru-Tone instead. Your video helped me see how the C7 would look inside on a tree. Question: At 13:58, when you are showing the tree on the left and the fireplace mantle on the right, can you confirm: 1) on the mantle, you are showing Teal and... Red or Purple? 2) What colours are you using on the tree? The clip: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tppkJOPoT0o.htmlsi=g1i6UZNgpUIfAea2&t=838

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

The mantle is red and green. The tree is red yellow blue green

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Yeah really have become a fan. The c7 was a lot cooler in both ways than I thought it would be. I was impressed

@realrobertjohnson 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for the quick reply! I thought I had replied with another question, but maybe it was blocked by RU-vid because I linked to the Tru-Tone website. What size is your living room tree and now may bulbs did you use on it? I just bought a 6-ft tall x 3-ft base, and according to Tru-Tone's "Product Guide → How many lights do I need?" page, for a high-density installation, I should use 108 bulbs, so I am planning on 100 bulbs (4 x 25-pack).

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

@@realrobertjohnson it’s a fake 6 foot tall tree. I used 100 lights. 1box of each color. And 4 of the basic red/green strands to hold the lights

@thezfunk 7 месяцев назад

I just found out about the Tru-Tone but I have been using the Novelty Light ones for a couple years. I like them but I do want to get some Tru-Tone. Novelty Light do have the twinkle bulbs that Tru-Tone doesn't have yet.

@SScott-nr9vl 5 месяцев назад

LED lights will never capture the luminosity of incandescent lights ever. These are as close as I've ever seen but LED lights illuminate like a beami whereas incandescent lights illuminate around the parameter. LED lights give me a headache as well I don't have one LED light that I know of in my house and it's been very difficult with the ban on incandescents.

@jaystus 5 месяцев назад

100% agree the flicker on LED gives me headaches too. I have to make sure I have full wave or I can’t stand it. Color wise these are great. Yeah have a little bright spots from the LED, in person not so bad.

@kimalonzo3363 8 месяцев назад

Ch-ching $$$😮

@mikekeller491 7 месяцев назад

I think Tru-Tone needs to go back to the make-up of there technology and improve the blue and magenta colors! I am no impressed by the color or output light performance of them. Green is really good though!

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

last years blue? Or blue from 2 years ago? I ordered the new dark teal last week. So I’m curious how the light output on those are.

@jaystus 7 месяцев назад

I just opened the new blue, it seems darker. Looks like many agreed with you.

@JP-uu2rw 8 месяцев назад

the string supplied by trutone is not your "normal cable". Your explanation minimizes, TruTone's efforts in perfecting nostalgia from a bye gone era. Tru-tone, went to great lengths to make strings look retro pre 1965. True Tone strings are twisted pair with red and green or two tone green twisted pair. . 90% of Lights strings after1965 , the sockets were affixed to lamp cord 2 wires molded together. By 1970 , maybe less than 10% of the strings were made like this and by 1975 made obsolete

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Thanks.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

I guess that’s what I just called the non deluxe cable. Which definitely is worth the money. Thanks for the information, much appreciated.

@kimalonzo3363 8 месяцев назад

Blue lights are my fave! So tranquil.

@jaystus 8 месяцев назад

Yes, love the blue

@kimalonzo3363 8 месяцев назад

Oooolala!