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From: Gothberg"@internet.co.is
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:55:55 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:
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> "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message
> news:op.zueh1ynoo5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...
>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "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:
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>>>>>>>>>> [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,
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> Half the population don't see car lights flicker.
Agreed, and the other half do.
>> you need to account for them.
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> Nope.
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>> If you think they're a minority,
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> I know there are.
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>> why does google have 4.5 million results for the car light flicker?
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> Just a few mindlessly ranting freaks, like you.
I must have asked about 30 people I know about it, and about half agreed it
was irritating.
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