Patent ID: 7175302

Claim:
A decorative lighting apparatus, comprising: a first wire having a first plurality of lamps coupled in series therealong; a second wire having a second plurality of lamps coupled in series therealong; a return wire coupled to ends of the first and the second wires; each lamp of the first plurality comprising a first light-emitting diode (LED) device which is coupled in parallel and in reverse orientation with a second LED device; each lamp of the second plurality comprising a third LED device which is coupled in parallel and in reverse orientation with a fourth LED device; the first and the second wires being positioned together such that each lamp of the first and the second pluralities are positioned adjacent to each other but sufficiently separated such that little or no color mixing occurs between lamps; a controller; a first output from the controller for controlling an illumination of a color in the first plurality of lamps along the first wire; a second output from the controller for controlling an illumination of a color in the second plurality of lamps along the second wire; a decorating selector which provides a plurality of user-selectable switch settings; the controller being adapted to control the first and the second outputs to provide a different color scheme in the first and the second pluralities of lamps for each user-selectable switch setting; and at least some of the different color schemes comprising at least two different colors simultaneously illuminated in the first and the second pluralities of lamps.