Svater Outdoor String Lights LED 96FT/29m, S14 2Pack 48FT Festoon Lights Mains Powered with 30+2 2W Plastic Bulbs, IP65 Waterproof Garden String Lights for Patio Party Wedding, 2700K Warm White

I love these outdoor lights, they really are fantastic and exceeded my expectations. We’ve got quite a long garden and we’ve recently had a new 1m high stock-proof fence installed along both sides to prevent our dog from squeezing through the hedges, and it gave me the idea to attach some garden lights along it and further enhance the garden. I looked at quite a few, and these particular ones stood out. While they are amongst the most expensive ones I looked at, they offered several benefits. Being LED they are going to proved lower running costs, and the bulbs are replaceable. They also have the facility to daisy chain them, so gives you the option to either have the two chains of lights separate or in one long run. I’ve chosen one long run.Inside the box you’ll find the two long lengths of cabling and light fittings. The bulbs come in some foam packing for you to fit yourself, which takes only a couple of minutes. At one end of the cable is a fitting to connect the three pin UK plug to, or to connect to the other end of the second cable to create the daisy-chain. Putting it all together took me about five minutes, including wrapping it around my wire fence.The bulbs give off a surprisingly bright light, illuminating much of my garden in a way I wasn’t expecting. They’ve so far been flicker free and look spectacular. They pay-off for me has come by making them voice controlled by our Amazon Alexa set-up. I’ve done this by plugging them into a TP-Link smart socket contained within a Masterplug IP54 weatherproof electric box (available on Amazon also), which then connects to a Masterplug IP66 outdoor socket (yep, Amazon too). Now, I can say “Alexa, turn on the garden lights” and boom, there it is. The landing lights come on. I’ve got them linked to a number of other routines as well.They really have exceeded my expectations so, despite the higher cost, I can thoroughly recommend them.

My lockdown project of an outdoor bar/entertainment area has been calling out for better lighting. I've used various solar options to differing degrees of success, I was inspired by a Facebook post and went on the hunt for these. My covered area is approx 4.4 x 4.6M, with a little maths I thought the 96 ft should work out ok, it's effectively 6 X 5 metre lengths of lighting, fifteen bulbs x 2 with spacing of about 1M between bulbs. I purchased a set of black hooks at the same time. Delivery was spot on as always and I set about discovering what was in the box. This comes as 2 complete sets, two sets of 15 bulbs plus 2 spare, two 15M rubber coated cables with e27 sockets which have some flexibility, two UK plugs with approx 30cm of cable fitted with the connector at the other end. I did away with one of those and daisy chained the cables together to form one long festoon type cable. Once hooks were in place I hung the cable, it comes with molded eyes at every fitting, the bulbs screw in with no issues and I plugged the whole thing in and everything worked. At first during daylight I thought they would be quite dim but at night you can see they are exactly what I was after, they are bright enough that my whole area is lit, it's great while I'm working on the bar, it may be too much for a party but that said I think it's brilliant. I cannot fault the set, while I thought they were a bit expensive ultimately I have what I need and they work very well. Be mindful that there is no switch on the lights and the plug lead is very short, I have since ordered a 3m cable to avoid having to put a socket in the roof rafters. As for weatherproofing they're under cover but they do seem to be well made and fully weatherproof they are IP65 rated so should be more than adequate. One other note is that they do not act like Christmas lights, I mean that if one bulb is out the rest do not go out, and that regardless of how many bulbs are in they do not dim or get brighter, this is the same for when connecting sets together, the instructions say you could have forty sets together, I don't know if that's a good idea though.