Yes, LED Christmas lights are brighter than incandescent lights because of advanced light generation and true color creation. LED Christmas lights offer additional advantages over incandescent lights as well, including energy efficiency, longer lifespan, and greater selection of form factors.

The main reason why LED Christmas lights are brighter than incandescent lights is because of superior technology. LED lights are technically brighter because they produce more lumens per watt, which means that they’re brighter while using less electricity than incandescent lights. Substantial progress has been made in design and manufacture of LED Christmas lights to the point that they’ve not only reached a similar appearance to incandescent lights, but surpassed them in terms of quality. LED lights literally outshine incandescent lights nowadays at 25% more brightness than incandescent Christmas lights.

LED Christmas lights also show brighter than incandescent lights because LED lights emit true colors. LED lights and incandescent lights produce color in fundamentally different ways from one another. Incandescent lights technically produce a natural whitish glow that comes from the burning of a filament in the bulb. The appearance of a colorful light is created by a painted bulb placed over the lit filament. LED Christmas lights produce different colors through use of special material that generates photons into specific wavelengths. Each specific wavelength produces an authentic emission that corresponds to a specific color.

LED Christmas lights are brighter than incandescent lights, and stay bright thanks to their full-wave rectified technology. All LED lights cycle on and off multiple times per second, and full-wave lights cycle twice the speed as half-wave lights. Retail-grade lights, unlike pro-grade LED Christmas lights, are only half-wave rectified. This means that retail-grade lights cycle on and off at half the speed as pro-grade lights, which appears as an obvious flickering. For constant brightness without fail, pro-grade LED Christmas lights are the way to go.

In addition to superior brightness and color creation, LED Christmas lights come with additional advantages over incandescent lights, including energy efficiency, longer lifespan, and greater selection of form factors. LED Christmas lights are highly energy efficient compared to incandescent lights, operating at a fraction of the wattage and leading to energy savings as much as 90%. Superior design and efficiency means a longer lifespan, too: high-quality LED Christmas lights used in typical indoor or outdoor settings can last 25,000 to 75,000 hours, or approximately 6 to 7 seasons. Dozens of incandescent sets could burn out within the lifespan of just one high-quality set of LED Christmas lights. And LED Christmas lights are available in form factors that incandescent lights are not, such as 5mm wide angle conicals. Wide angle conicals shine brighter than other LED Christmas lights, and can be enjoyed from a wide viewing angle.

5mm wide angle conicals are the premier choice of Christmas lights in our network of over 2,000 professional Christmas lights installers. Are 5mm wide angle conicals the right choice for you? Check them out in our huge selection of LED Christmas lights perfect for brightening your next holiday season.