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Comment by hunter2_

What's the cause? Alternators run at very high frequencies with good rectifiers, so I'm guessing the flicker is introduced by PWM dimming, but why would that be a low enough frequency to bother people?

I'm sensitive to flicker myself, but only on the more extreme half of the spectrum. For example, half rectified LED drivers on 60 Hz AC drive me nuts, but full rectified (120 Hz) I very rarely notice. I don't notice any problem with car tail lights, except in the case of a video camera where the flicker and the frame rate are beating. The beating tends to be on the order of 10 Hz (just shooting from the hip here) so if frame rates are 30/60/120 then I guess the PWM frequency is something like 110 or 130 Hz?

parent hunter2_ 1 year ago

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