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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message   
   news:op.zud6dhovo5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   > On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:25:49 -0000, Rod Speed    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message   
   >> news:op.zubpuunso5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 04:27:41 -0000, Clare Snyder    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:39:50 -0000, "William Gothberg" <"William   
   >>>> Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:34:11 -0000, whisky-dave   
   >>>>>    
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:21:43 UTC, Mark Lloyd  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 12/19/18 6:01 AM, William Gothberg wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> [snip]   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> > They probably are fairly crude.  I know they flicker, for example   
   >>>>>>> > if   
   >>>>>>> > I   
   >>>>>>> > use my cordless drill, the chuck appears to spin the wrong way   
   >>>>>>> > under   
   >>>>>>> > the   
   >>>>>>> > LED lighting.   
   >>>>>>> I remember seeing that with a washing machine (under fluorescent   
   >>>>>>> lights). As the tub was slowing down, the row of holes around the   
   >>>>>>> tub   
   >>>>>>> would appear to reverse direction. Same thing with (spoked) wagon   
   >>>>>>> wheels   
   >>>>>>> in movies.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You can also observe such things using a smartphone that has a high   
   >>>>>> FPS   
   >>>>>> rate for recodring movie.   
   >>>>>> I can see the labs lights flicker when I film at 240FPS  standard 60   
   >>>>>> and everything seems fine.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Everybody seems to constantly cut corners.  Lights should just be on,   
   >>>>> no   
   >>>>> flicker at all.  Fucking annoying if you have decent eyesight, I can   
   >>>>> see   
   >>>>> the flicker from almost everyone's LED tail lights.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   This is sounding more and more like our "engineer friend" who needs   
   >>>> to do his own tire repairs and alignments and clutch repairs.   
   >>>   
   >>> Don't know who you're referring to, but what's wrong with striving for   
   >>> perfection?   
   >>   
   >> It increases costs for everyone who isnt a freak.   
   >   
   > There's perfection and there's perfection.  You for example like LEDs you   
   > can control the colour of, nothing wrong with that.  But OCD folk take   
   > things too far, like washing their car every day because of two specks of   
   > dust.   
      
   All irrelevant to whether it makes any sense to design   
   all car lights so that no freak ever sees any flicker at all.   
      
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