[The Vlad Hatter]

Interesting, I might try that.

Thanks

[MIKECOZ8]

These are what I use. I buy mine at Michaels in the christmas village section. Just cut a small hole, clip the sucker on and it works great!

I too use these lights --- my only issue was that the light was too white inside the fake pumpkin --- found a solution this year - take an dark orange Sharpie and color the bulb -- works GREAT

[mudd]

or buy the different colored c7 light bulbs that are used for christmas. its what i use, they come in dark and light colors. they should be in the christmas light section of any store right now.

[Mistress_of_Halloween]

I use this premise for my real pumpkins. I place them in a row and use a string of christmas lights to light them. It works great because I can turn them off or on from inside my house.

[Slug]

My girlfriend and I got tired of changing batteries every night, so we went to walmart and bought a bunch of solar yard stakes for 2 bucks each and lit all of our pumpkins that way. The one drawback is taking the pumpkins off so they can charge during the day, but in the long run, we are saving a bunch of money on batteries and helping to keep batteries out of landfills.

[LittleBlueBMW]

I used strings of C6 flicker bulbs on strings for the foamies. It worked really well. The only negative is a 12 inch spacing. The 24 inch spaced ones were not available (as of halloween). These are sold as a candle alternative for Xmas trees.

[wookie66]

I found a website called superbrightleds.com. It looks like they have some really bright push lights. They have one disk that has up to 15 led white lights. Some even come with double sided foam tape so you can stick the disk anywhere.

[GUS]

If there is something that gets my emotions up & running it is LED's! ..I love them with a passion, the changes in efficiency every 4-6 months has me all twitchy, as a young lad working with them ( were not used for anyhting other than standby switches, so investment into technology had stalled years back) they were a very exciting form of low cost lighting with a great burn time when constructed correctly, I still remember the day I first understood the advances led could give us if utilised, took another 20 years to really start to come good.
When looking at an led you need to know what module is being used, the measuring process & manufacturer putting it into production, as they all hinge on each other a bit like an energy consuming oven or a low energy efficient well designed model.
Why care? because it's all got to be produced, manufactured, shipped, packaged, retailed etc, all along the way that involves multiple packaging.
I only like to buy once (as in a lifetime product purchase).
By getting aquainted with a few of the specialist led selling sites you can learn a lot about various modules efficiency / drain etc & look out for those sets within product, the cheap bargain bucket end of the markets mechanical tolerances are far more finite than one would imagine coupled with poor production technique, poor light output matching & measuring.
If considering something with multiple leds to stick in your pumpkin that is actually a light for sticking under parasol round a table outside at night that may cost $15 -$20 bucks per unit go into a camping / outdoors shop & see what they've got for a bit more to maybe double in terms of led utility lighting instead, that way your purchase isn't simply (possibly) cheap crap with limited use.
For instance I purchase Black Diamond Apollo lanterns (50 / 56 lumen) when I travel abroad which (could be better) run on 4 AA's & have a variable light output, the led emitter being a quality unit, & just in the process of being upgraded to 80 Lumen (so check stock) ..the result is that this is a well designed unit of plastic, rubber, & metal, water resistant, pumpkin guts resistant, & useful for the rest of the year as utility / camping lighting, a fab nightlight for my daughter which we stick on lowest setting by her bed (has alot of nightmares) ..great power out light, plenty of reviews on it.
OK so it costs more but they are used every week, durability of a well known outdoors brand, fits in a pumpkin, diffused light ideal for illumination.
if you need a stable adjustable light i'd highly recommend one as a gift for an outdoorsman or dad who crawls around in attics doing repairs, very multi-modal.
(theres also a 1 watt version which is really tiny called the "orbit")

Take the rrp witha pinch of salt theres alot of variables with places such as mountain co-op in canada etc.

Torch forums are also a good place to learn about the stock unit led's being used too!

http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en ... ing/apollo

http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en ... ting/orbit

This link (below) is to candlepower forums so deconstruction of the lamp & alot of basic info on why only decent light emitters...
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/sho ... p?t=231292