Chasing rope lights

trickman

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I recently moved all my standups, pinball and a cocktail into a specific area of my basement, and it looks really cool now. I've done a lot of revamping in that area and it's pretty close to being complete. One thing I really wanted to add was rope lights along the ceiling to section off the arcade from other areas of the basement. But I don't want the standard ones, though. I want them to be chasing with a speed controller and such. I saw such a setup at Star Worlds arcade in DeKalb, IL. and was really impressed by it.

Places like Home Depot, Menards and other home improvement places have regular rope lights for sale all the time, but I've asked around and nobody has chasing ones until "the holidays" start coming into play. My question is, should I wait a while until Christmas decorations start going on sale and look for chasing rope lights then, or have any of you experienced a good place that sells them...either a brick and mortar store, or online that I could explore?
 
Do a search on Ebay for LED rope lights - add chasing to the search if you get to many hits. They're all over on there.

I too was considering the chasing lights but they're pretty pricey. I'm kind of just considering some blue LED lights now...

Good luck with your search.
Tom
 
Yah ebay has them for sure I plan to buy some soon. They have I think 3 wire and 5 wire I believe the 5 wire has more lights and can do more things from chasing to fading,etc....
 
Yah ebay has them for sure I plan to buy some soon. They have I think 3 wire and 5 wire I believe the 5 wire has more lights and can do more things from chasing to fading,etc....

Yeah, I was wondering the differences between 3 and 5 wire ones. I assume the more wires, the more cool stuff you can do. 2 different speed settings would be just fine with me.
 
My buddy works in retail and they're already starting to get the xmas stuff out of mothballs...I'd say wait one more month until after halloween and all the xmas should be out in full force the very next day.

Or you can wait a couple more months and get all that crap at 50% off :)
 
I'll probably wait 'til after Halloween and see who's got 'em. All the online stores I've checked have large spools for a lot of money and I really don't need that much.
 
I have yet to ever see chasing rope lights where I live at christmas time in the LED form. I myself wouldnt want the other style rope lights that get hot right up against my cieling,and if I remember right you cant add on to the ones that chase and get hot..Ebay or online really is the way to go. Splurge and buy the spool and then get the controller to run them,should look pretty cool :)
 
I've also come across chasing "rice lights." They are not as cool as rope, but decent looking and they're a LOT less expensive.
 
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