As an aside...
We live in SE Michigan. A few days before Christmas we visited Bronner's Christmas Store in Frankenmuth, MI. In the 'Lights' section of the store they had quite an assortment of miniature LED light strings...like the MTH ones having small LED's connected with a pair of enameled wires. Some of the strings had varied colored lights, others solid colors, others in white LED's. ALL were very affordable. Most seemed to be battery powered.....some even having a battery and simple momentary switch already in the package for demonstration purposes.
While too late for this year, I'm already thinking up a few projects for next Christmas using these to brighten the vignettes!
I'm sure other Christmas stores have similar offerings. But if you're ever near SE Michigan be sure to visit Bronner's.....world renowned for being THE largest Christmas store anywhere. In fact, I even saw a billboard for Bronner's just a couple miles from the Breezewood exit on the PA turnpike a few years ago. Perhaps it's still there!? Ditto I-75 in Georgia, I believe!
BTW, Bronner's has a website...and is open all year, excepting a couple holidays.
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Re soldering enameled wires.....carefully scraping the enamel off to expose the clean parent wire material is essential. A drop of liquid flux can help, too. Somewhat daunting....but doable.
KD
