Thank you Raven, but if I'm understanding correctly, there's only 15 lights on the 48 ft. strand?

My DH bought some for their hunting camp when the guys went hunting a couple of months ago. I believe he bought a string of lights with LEDs at either Amazon or Harbor Freight (if you have one of those places near you). He said they worked great.

If you have Costco near you, they should have them this time of year.

They are a good sized bulb not tiny and put out a good deal of light. Every two or three feet is a bulb. It is just the right amount. These are the same type you see in outdoor restaurants. I saw them originally on the Willie's ice house patio and loved them.

I got I got mine at Costco- now they carry LED. Good thing about Costco-- is there return/exchange policy.

If you go to the link at Amazon scroll down to the reviews there's several pictures people have posted of them.

Thanks Raven. I'll check out the pictures. Yes, there is Costco here, but we aren't members (I've actually never been!!). Thanks guys!

The Costco 50' strand is regularly $49.95, but they go on sale for $10 less at least 3 times a year. It's the best deal I have seen. Maybe you can find a friend to buy you some!

We got our lights at PartyLights.com. We ordered by the socket, which is a little more expensive. They have specific string lengths as well, which come with a plug while ours are hard wired. The light bulbs we got are 1.4watt warm white LED, expensive on the front end but they save a ton of energy. We run all these lights on about 120w. The item # for the bulbs is LEDPFLB11WW and the sockets is #MSBUBK. We love our lights.

Edtied the wattage info.

The ones at Costco are not Led lights which is why the difference in price. We looked at them. These are able to plug together multiple strands.

Years ago (I'm talking like at least 12) we bought Target's Room Essentials brand string lights - they were on sale for like $7 for a strand. I needed 4 strands to go around the perimeter of my screen porch and I bought a few extra strands figuring that they would eventually go bad and I wouldn't be able to find matching ones to replace them.

Here is it 12 years later and all of the extra light sets are still sitting in the original bag in my basement. Every single bulb on the original strands still works. Granted, I only turn them on a few times a year when we have parties, but I would have thought that weather and dampness and corrosion would have done at least one or two of them in by now, but no. They are on a covered porch but up against the screens so they do get rained on, and I leave them up all year round....I certainly haven't babied them at all!

And Target still carries the exact same lights too -- figures! (You know, if I hadn't stocked up on matching extras, they would be discontinued for sure!!!) Every year I see them in the flyer on sale several times a year, so if $12.99 is too steep for you, wait a few weeks -- they'll go on sale.

http://www.target.com/p/25ct-clear-globe-lights-room-essentials-153/-/A-17186971

Also, they are not LED but I actually prefer that -- they have a very vintage old-fashioned carnival-y kind of look that I love! And since I only turn them on a few times a year, I don't feel too guilty. (I've converted most of my home lighting to LED but there's something about that incandescent glow for string lights -- I'll never convert my Christmas lights either!)

Thanks for your replies! LKP - I am like you on the incandescent lights. We spend alot of time out back so we would actually probably use the lights a good bit. I will check those out.

Spanish - your outside area is lovely!

We returned the LED Edison bulb string of lights from Costco. My husband was disappointed that they are purely decorative and do not cast enough light.

We got ours at Orchard Supply Hardware, which may or may not have a store in your location (whatever that is). We bought Edison style LED light bulbs for it the ones we have in the yard, but we have regular incandescent in the pergola, so that we can easily see to eat when we barbecue in the winter. The ones in the pergola are on a switch with a remote control, and the yard lights are on an automatic switch that turns them on a dusk for a preset number of hours, such as 2, 4, 6, etc. I'm not sure about the hours because my brother takes care of it, but I believe we have it set for two hours, which is long enough for us. It's easy to change, however.

The lights we have in the pergola also have a metal reflector above the light bulbs so that the light goes mainly downward. They look something like this.