Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This review is for a 4-pack of battery operated fairy string lights. The price, $16.95 at the time of this review, works out to about $4.25 per string which I feel is a good deal for their quality. The lighted length of each string is 16.4 feet, plus the battery pack. The lights themselves are small little bumps on a copper wire, which I prefer to mini-bulbs because of their warm twinkly appearance and durability. The “warm white” is a nice yellow/white color. The great thing about copper wire lights is they never burn out, and the strand can be shaped or wrapped around anything you like such as wreaths, holiday displays, decorations, home décor, and they hold their shape. I have many copper string lights, some I’ve had for years, and none of them have ever broken or stopped lighting up. You’ll need 3 AA batteries per strand of lights and they are not included. The obvious pro about battery operated lights is you can place them anywhere, in areas you typically couldn’t have lights due to not being near a power plug or not wanting to run a power cord there. However, I usually do NOT purchase battery operated lights anymore because it’s such a pain to switch them on and off and I constantly forget about them, leaving them on and draining the batteries dead in one day. That is not a problem with these lights because each strand has a timer! There is only one option for the timer which is 6 hours on and 18 hours off, but I find it works out just perfectly for me. I currently have these lights on my front door wreath, in a decorative display in my tall built-in bookshelf, and on my fireplace mantle. I set them to come on at 530pm when I get off work and it starts getting dark, and then they automatically turn off at 1130pm around the time I go to bed. I get to enjoy these every night without fearing that I will forget to turn them off and wake up to dead batteries the next day. The timer works without fail and it remembers which setting you had the lights on. Speaking of settings, each strand has 8 different settings. One of the settings is just regular “always on”, and the rest are different patterns of blinking, flashing, fading in and out, and twinkling. Please see my video to see all of the 8 available patterns. You can also dim these lights in 10 different levels, which is fabulous! The batteries last longer that way and they don’t have to be glaring bright if you use them in a dark room. You change the settings and set the timer using a small remote. There is a remote included with each of the 4 strands (and they work with the other strands, too!), and the batteries were included already in the remotes. Another great thing about these lights is they are waterproof. You shouldn’t submerge the battery box in water, but the lights themselves can get wet with no issues. The lighted wreath on my front door has been just fine through rain and sleet. The battery box is hidden behind the wreath but definitely still got splashed in the rain with no damage. The only slight con I can think of is there is some broken English/strange grammar on the instructions, the lights must be made in China. The instructions were still easy to follow though, and it didn’t affect using them. I will say they were packaged very nicely and you can tell from the instructions that this company stands behind their product. I can’t say enough good things about these lights, I may even order another set for Holiday decorations! Update: I originally placed batteries in all 4 of these light stands at the end of October and set the timer so they automatically turn on for 6 hours every night. It is now December 15th and they have been coming on without fail every night for over a month and a half. I am just now noticing the batteries dying and the lights are getting dim. I think a month and a half is a surprisingly long amount of time for batteries to last when used daily for 6 hours!