Electric Candles - Where Are The Good Ones?

[Clark Griswold]

Maybe you all can help me with my quest. I made a terrible mistake last year of purchasing electric candles that had the dreadful dusk/dawn sensor on them. They were terrible. Oh they worked, but heaven forbid if ANY light was on in the room. I trashed them after christmas.

I am looking for electric candles with on/off switches that have the gold brass looking cord that lamps do (not the off white cheap cord), brass base and NO sensors!

Where can I find them?? All the ones I find a cheap, china made with those cheap cords. Where has the quality gone?

Thanks for any help!

[haagarr]

Look in the more upscale department stores, I would say a name brand like GE. I hope this could be of some help.:snowball:

[dominick]

I HATE General Electric with a passion. Nothing I've purchased from them has lasted more than a couple years. I bought a set of chaser lights from them with covers that were supposed to look like C9 bulbs. I got one bad set from the get-go. The second set I got after returning the first lasted a season and a half. By early December of the second year I had them, the orange stopped working; not wanting to go up on the roof with snow I just dealt with it. A week later the blue stopped working as well.

It's not just Christmas lights, either. Phones, TVs, fans... the list goes on. I try my best to not buy their products any more.

[reindeerelf]

Check out Christmas Tree Hill (http://www.christmastreehill.com/hosligbul.html).
They also have a great selection of bulbs.

[Clark Griswold]

Check out Christmas Tree Hill (http://www.christmastreehill.com/hosligbul.html).
They also have a great selection of bulbs.


Thank you! They look very good and not like the cheap 3 dollar candles. Planning on picking some of these http://www.christmastreehill.com/ches95elwinc.html .

Now my next question, I used suction cup holders last year for the cheap candles, however these new ones have a 3" base. This will not fit in the holder. They will sit on our sills, but will overhang a little more than 1/4". They should be fine, but I need something to secure them or extend the sill out so everything is ok.

Thanks for everyones help so far cheesy

[dominick]

If you don't mind the adhesive on your sill or window, 3M makes a terrific velcro-like product called Dual Lock. Instead of looped fiber and hooks, it's a "self mating" product (meaning it attaches to itself instead of having two parts) that's made up of tiny plastic balls. Very secure stuff. With this stuff, you would have a mounting point each year.

For something more temporary, I've had good luck with 3M Command adhesive strips.

[RavenHardt]

thanks for that tip Dominick

[Clark Griswold]

Yes, thank you. Do you think those strips will stick to the felt that is on the bottom of most candles?

[dominick]

As long as the felt doesn't pull off of the candle, I think it would hold.


Raven, good to see you around!

[Clark Griswold]

I will give it a whirl and see how it goes. :rudolph:

[haagarr]

Sorry I did not know again I apologize no GE

[dominick]

No need to apologize, that's just my personal experience with them. Someone else may have had a completely different experience. Maybe it's luck of the draw, but I just got too many junk products to think it's coincidence.

[reindeerelf]

I've had problems with the felt on the center of the candle base tearing when it was stuck to the window sill. Ours tend to get bumped when we're messing with window shades and the felt on our candles is not very strong.. I solved the problem using Department 56 Tacky Wax. As the name suggests it's a sticky waxy translucent stuff and it comes in a small round plastic container. I just put three or four small dabs on the edge of the base then firmly press the candle down on the sill and holds very nicely. It also is fairly easy to remove--just wipe it off with a soft cloth or wash with warm water.

[dominick]

That sounds like the way to go here.