You definitely get what you pay for here. These are extremely cheaply made, although the lights look great from afar, the control switch has a mind of its own. We plugged it into an extension cord and a timer and each time the timer went on it was in a different mode! That was a real problem because we hung these lights up very high and it was impossible to fix the try to adjust it as the controller was 15’ in the air (we tried it once with our 22’ ladder, but it kept happening!)- so every night before Christmas turned into a Las Vegas Light Extravaganza! Not what we were going for!