They work greatPut them in child's play kitchenWas concerned at first because it looked a little cheap (I have never bought twinkle lights like these before) but once I hung them and turned them on they look great! Love the color settings.I got them quickly and they made a beautiful centerpiece.Love these lights! The timer works perfectly and is so handy with the remote. Thanks!I didn't like the way the items were packaged. no protection and in an already slighly torn box. these are electrical items and should have been in bubble wrap at least.as you can see from the pictures, there is a sturdy plastic battery box that opens and locks with latches, and contains a trigger switch and circuit board(?) which I assume is where the mechanism for the on off, various options, and brighter/dimmer options are controlled in concert with the remote controls. Each light set worked well when I tested them. (You need to provide your own batteries... remember this if this is any sort of gift... ) I ran through everything with the remotes, from on to off and everything inbetween. The remotes do have plastic tabs to prevent the remotes being live until you choose them to be, and I found that the tab actually easily slips back in. so if you plan on not using them for a while... you can save those from running out.There is also a list of the various options for the lites on the battery box attached to the lights. a soft plastic rubber button on the lid can be depressed to choose from static on, through all the options and off again. I have included pictures so show the lights on, what they look like off, as well as images of the battery box, remote and instructions. After imediate irritation that there was no real instructions to explain it to me, I realised it was all a matter of looking at the remote and the battery box and I figured the rest out in seconds. I do like these, and am considering buying more for gift purposes. The ones I have will be used along with decorative metal candle lanterns with cutouts that will allow these lights to shine through beautifully.These were way nicer than expected . I strung them up around my fire pit and they worked perfectlyRemote works great, time function is perfect and lights are bright.This works really great. But the shortest time to run is six hours; when I only need about three. Way too many batteries to dispose of. DO NOT BUY cheap Dollar Store batteries that only last four hours. They are filling up the landfills and leaching into our water. PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT ARE WE LEAVING FOR OUR CHILDREN?? Cheap does not pay!!!!!These are beautiful, many fun different settings, easy to install anywhere with the flexible wire. As mentioned by others, does go through batteries pretty fast. Our solution was to use rechargeable batteries.I loved the brightness and quality of these lights at first and the remote worked great. But after a month they stopped working with new batteries! And the new set I bought did not work at all what a waste of $45.These twinkle lights were perfect, they are super long, have a very nice bright white glow, there were comments that they dont last very long, however we forgot to turn them off before leaving the venue the night of our wedding and they were still on the next day when we came to clean up, they were on for about 20 hours at that point, highly recommend these lightsThe remote doed eork for both lights ? Bought these to put in my camper van ? happy to be able to use one one remote to control both lights at the same time ? I will keep the second one as a backup ?