NEW Govee Icicle Lights Full at-home review

By now we all know icicle lights.. these dangly strands can jazz up your eaves. But old school icicle lights can be a bit dull.
Smart icicle lights, like these form Govee are designed to put a world of colour and design at your fingertips, not to mention giving you remote control and synchronization abilities with your other smart Govee holiday lights too.
In this review, I’m going install the longer 65-foot string kit at my home… I’ll show you how they go up, what you can do with them, and what they look like. I’ll wrap things up with the pros and the cons and let you know if I think these are a good holiday light chose for you.

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Smart icicle lights are even better as you can apply different color schemes to suit the mood. Search around your favorite online marketplace and you’ll likely find all sorts of brands selling lights for under $40 USD. Recently, popular smart light manufacturer Govee made its debut with the category offering its own Govee Icicle Lights product with a rather high $139 USD / $189 CAD starting price. Have we entered the era of the Govee tax or does this product offer something special? I have all the details!
About the Govee Icicle Lights
The Govee Icicle Lights is Govee’s attempt on putting a premium spin of the icicle lights category. At the time of writing, Govee offers two variants of this product – the 32.8-foot H70D1 model priced at $139 USD / $189 CAD and the 65.6-foot HD70D2 version (which I have) offering twice as many lights for a modest price increase to $249 USD / $349 CAD.
What’s in the Box?
In the box, you get two strings of Govee Icicle lights, which feature individual strands hanging from a central wire. There’s also a power pack which has a split connection, allowing you to connect two strings separately.
In addition to the icicle lights, you also get 45 clips with hooks on both sides. If you prefer installing on a handrail or fence, you can also use the 45 zip ties that come with the kit instead.
My 65.6-foot version comes with a second string of icicle lights along twice as many clips and zip ties.
The way this will work is you’ll need to run each string off the central power; here at my house I’ve had to run the central power up the middle of the house here, and then one string goes off to each side.
While this actually works quite well here at my house, it may be problematic for other installations. Particularly because you cannot connect the two sections of icicle lights to each other.
These lights come with two bags of plastic clips, which initially seem kind of thin and flimsy… let’s see what they’re like in practise.
Installing icicle lights is like setting up typical string lights in the sense that you’ll be hanging the wire from the clips, which will attach to your eaves. You could also use wide staples or clips and affix them to the soffits or the siding.
I found the clips can work in a couple of ways, and they actually fit my eaves perfectly, they hold very fimly and they stay in place.
Having hung lights from subpar clips in the past, I have to say I wasn’t expecting these included clips to be so strong, versatile and useful, so major extra points to Govee for that.
Here at my house the clip just snap over the lip of my eavestroughs, then the wire is held by a hook at the bottom of the clip.
The light strings of various lengths dangle vertically on the wire vaguely resembling dangling icicles.
Every “icicle” contains an odd number of lights from three (3) to seven (7) lights. Govee laid out the icicles in such a way that no neighboring lights are the same length so you get this repetitive 3, 5, 7, 5, 3 pattern .
One thing that did stand out to me right away is that in some cases, particularly on the shorter strands, the wires are bent and don't quite hang straight. I'll give this a day or two for everything to stretch out before I get worried and we’ll see how it displays, coming up…

[PABGames]

So we can't connect 2 of the 66ft lights to make 132ft?

[paddymcgillicuddy]

Thank you, do you know if it is possible to turn off a section of the lights. I think they would be too long so I would like to be able to have a section at the end unlit

[lucasmm]

Do you prefer icicle or permanents? which one looks better?

[Kuno_]

Mine just failed in heavy rain 😅 one section is out . Haven’t checked further yet, hoping they come back to life once dry outside

[fastpctv]

Overall well produced video.
Feels like there's too many transition animated graphics that are not needed and are very distracting.

[sjp]

I purchased (1) 32 ft Govee Icicle light. I guessed wrong and Im about 10 feet short. So I purchased another 32 foot which will arrive in a couple day. I know I'll need a separate extension cord for it but will they sync up as one for patterns and such? And does anyone know for future use could I purchase a power splitter for it for next year? Thanks

[GglieS]

But not the powerbrick. It has a lower IP rating, IP45 I believe.