Thread: Flicker Flame Find Cheap Alternative

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Ok I have seen people curious about how to set there PVC candles up with an electrical hook up rather than use the battery operated flicker tea lights. I too was trying to find an EASY way to do it on the cheap. FINALLY success...I found a string of Flicker Flames lights that could easily be re-purposed for just that. I also found that they are a GREAT CHEAP alternative too buying individual candelabra size flicker flame bulbs. Each string is about 9-10 ft. long and has a total of 10 candelabra bulbs that look GREAT, in my opinion. I will hopefully be using these to turn my PVC candles into a plug in style rather than battery operated...Hope this helps some people out...just thought I would share.

Even if you have a standard bulb socket you can buy a 98 cents adapter to covert your standard socket into a candelabra socket...if you wanted to know.


Purple pack $8.99 at Menards
Black pack $9 at Big Lots

Hope this helps some of you out...enjoy

Cool, thanks. I was planning on using those bulbs in some fake pumpkins outside my house as preliminary decorations. Hook them up to a timer and I'm solid until the beginning of October.

I bought two of these flickering light sets at BigLots yesterday. They're identical quality to the ones sold at Spirit stores for ~$16. These would look good even just strung up to guide people into your haunt. For $9 each, you could go crazy

I bought these at Big Lots last year. They last through out constant downpours during the campout weekend. i was impressed that they made it through and still worked. I might pick up another set this year.

The best part of these is you can seperate them out individually into anything! Thats why I bought them as soon as I saw them. TONS of application for my haunt. I added a flicker flame to my caretakers lantern!

i started with those for a few projects but its much cheaper to buy the sockets, male and female plugs,, and the bulbs from Action Lighting on the web,,, then,, you can make your own strands with some SPT1 wire with the sockets spaced out how you want them to be. They all use vampire connections (lil fang lookin things that puncture the wire for the connections) so they are very easy to make.