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   "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message   
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   > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:18:29 -0000, Mark Lloyd  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/19/18 5:23 AM, William Gothberg wrote:   
   >>> Do switch mode power supplies flicker in time with mains?  Specifically   
   >>> LED power supplies in commercially available domestic lamps.  By in   
   >>> time, I don't mean at the same 50/60Hz, but anchored to it.  I.e. if you   
   >>> have several such lamps each with their own built in supply, will they   
   >>> all flicker in time, using the mains frequency to keep them in time, or   
   >>> will they be random, making the room overall not flicker due to them all   
   >>> being random?  And is there any way I can test this?  I tried taking   
   >>> photos of them, but my camera only goes as fast as 1/2000th of a second,   
   >>> which shows all the lights at the same brightness each time, I suspect   
   >>> the flicker is above 2000Hz.   
   >>   
   >> I once had an audio amplifier with a solar cell rather than a microphone   
   >> for the input transducer. This made it possible to listen to light. The   
   >> sun is steady, incandescent lights (AC powered) hum.   
   >>   
   >> That was 40 years ago. Maybe something like that would work today.   
   >   
   > The trouble is I want to compare 2kHz+ from one light with 2kHz+ from a   
   > neighbouring light and see if they're in sync.   
      
   They wont be. They would have to have extra to synch   
   to the mains and there is absolutely no reason to do that.   
      
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