Post #26038

2025-12-03 04:52 UTC

All lights flicker. Just mostly we can’t perceive them. LED flicker is most noticeable tho. Incandescent the least. Fun fact. They flicker at similar frequencies (per light output/lumens) but the light drop off is more dramatic for LEDs so we perceive it more. People who are epileptic or prone to migraines usually are bothered more by LEDs.

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@AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-03 15:00

One word for you: DLP projectors

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@lucg@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 16:52

All lights? Also battery-fed DC lights somehow?! I’m no expert but that seems strange I’ve caught a lot of lights and light-emitting displays flickering with the 980fps camera that’s built into my phone (best thing since sliced bread for a nerd like me), but also quite many lights appear solid. I’d imagine few have such high-frequency electronics that it pulses well beyond 1 kHz. Otherwise the sensor should sometimes capture a frame during a low or a peak As an example, I was recently looking at car lights in Germany, expecting to see duty cycling in most modern ones, but the majority (2/3rds or so) were actually solid so far as I could tell. A few cars had a mixture of flickering and solid lights in seemingly the same fixture. All flickering ones were high frequency though, not like 50 Hz as grid-fed lights do but much more. I didn’t bother with ffmpeg and counting frames but I estimated on the order of 250 Hz for one of them

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