Burned out Noma LED Christmas lights are something I read a lot about. On almost all of my Noma posts, I have at least one person talking about how they have a set of LED lights with burned out bulbs.
So, what do you do with a set LED Christmas lights that have burned out lights?
Well, I hope you kept your receipts because Canadian Tire (who sells the Noma brand) will replace your burned out Noma LED Christmas lights lights with a new set. This is because the Noma LED Christmas lights carry a 5 year warranty that covers burned out LED light sets. You must have your receipt though.
If you didn’t keep your receipt then you may need to get creative with your LED Christmas lights. Well, assuming that the entire set isn’t burned out that is. Depending on how you use your lights, you may not even have to do anything to mask your burned out lights.
If you put the lights on a tree or bush, you will hardly notice a few burned out lights. Remember that at night and from a distance, the whole tree or bush will just be a mass of lights. Take a look at my example of Noma LED Christmas lights outside from last year. The picture is very zoomed but you can still get the idea of how difficult it would be to find a few burned out LED lights.
Multi-colour Noma LED lights outside
If you put the lights along your gutter or around windows then it gets a little more tricky. If you really want to have evenly spaced out lights then one option is to double up a good light with a burned out light. Assuming of course that you only have a few lights per string that aren’t burned out. Yes, this will shorten the distance you can cover with the set of lights but it will provide the even spacing desired.
Another option for gutters or around windows is to simply add more LED Christmas lights! One of my favorite displays of LED Christmas lights was the Physicians house at the Upper Canada Village – Alight at Night display last year.
The Physician's House at Upper Canada Village
This is a very good example of how adding more LED Christmas lights can hide the fact that some of your LED lights may be burned out.
Finally, if you’re really ambitious (and know what you’re doing) you could cut the dead LED Christmas lights out of the string of lights. This would require knowledge of electrical stuff so you can reconnect everything correctly. I can’t really recommend anyone do this though as if you don’t know what you’re doing you could create a very dangerous fire hazard.
I was so fed up paying the high electric bills, I decided to try out LED lights. I bought the LED lights to replace my old bulbs – CFL and incandescent – and guess what – my electric bills did drop a lot! I also found a great site to buy the LEDs called LEDinsider.com that I would recommend enthusiastically. They had good service (good phone and email support), great FAQs so I knew what I needed, and competitive prices; also, their shipping was fast and the LEDs were as good as advertised. http://www.LEDInsider.com. Very good online shopping experience
I’ve found that Noma’s led light strings coming from China are of a very poor quality. The main failures have not been burn outs but rust outs. Their outdoor lights are not capable of exterior use unless they are protected from moisture. The leads feeding power to the LED’s are steel, which rust out with exposure to moisture. Use Nome products only indoors and they’ll be fine.
I strung up 60 feet of C6 NOMA LED lights that I purchased last winter and just a couple of nights ago I noticed that 30 feet of them are dim. And of course I can’t find the receipt which Canadian Tire requires. So I bought another string to replace them but of course had to buy the smaller lights as stock is out on C6′s.
When I took the other strand down, one shake and they light up and then go dim again. I checked the tag on it and Yes they are made in China.
But the electricity saved must have covered that string over the last season.
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Noma christmas lights are the worst lights I have ever purchased, From year to year the warm whites are a totally different colour… and half the strand burns out. I cant even count how many times Ive had to replace these lights, and although they are easy to exchange with a receipt… Its very irritating putting them up 3 times a season and having to take them back down to replace… Love the lights but VERY poor quality.
Hi mommalee. I agree that it is really annoying that the white LED lights keep changing colour every year but that’s not just Noma lights – it’s LED lights in general. Cheap LED lighting is still a really “young” product and getting different colours out of LEDs isn’t easy. Unlike red, blue or green LEDs, there really is no such thing as a “white” LED.
Please don’t think I’m defending Noma lights because I’m not. I’ve returned my fair share of lights (you can read about it all on this blog) and I’m really surprised by their apparent lack of quality control. However, after 5 years I now own 15 strings of Noma LED Christmas lights and think both Noma and Canadian Tire have been doing a fantastic job at honouring the 5 year warranties on the product. I have yet to be told no when I come in with a set of burned out lights and my receipt in hand.
Yes I have the same problem with my LED lights burning out…this year..on Christmas Day….of course…..half the tree was not lite up….
I tried to return them..but with no Receipt..it was pointless…
So Thanks for the idea….Jeff about doubling up….I will try that next year…
I have also written to the company telling them about my problems with the lights….
so we will see if they do anything…
I wrote the company Wendy. Their excuse is that they are a company out of UK, and don’t have any direct responsibility with Canadian or North American consumers for that matter. They only referred me to contact Canadian Tire to see what the store could do. Alas, no reciept…no dice.