XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y   
   From: Gothberg"@internet.co.is   
      
   On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:07:42 -0000, Rod Speed  wrote:   
      
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   > "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:   
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   >>> "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:   
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   >>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:39:50 -0000, "William Gothberg" <"William   
   >>>>> Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote:   
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   >>>>>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:34:11 -0000, whisky-dave   
   >>>>>>    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
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   >>>>>>> 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.   
      
   When "freak" is half the population, you need to account for them.  If you   
   think they're a minority, why does google have 4.5 million results for the car   
   light flicker?   
      
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