Hi All,
I am looking for defused, flicker free LED light bulbs (5000K, 60w equiv). Had no luck with the Phillips (waste of money). I see a lot of reviews but then people complain about the flicker anyway.
You guys have any tips?
Many thanks,
-T
Flickering all-the-time ? .. intermittent / random ? .. when other devices are going on-off ? I have several LED bulbs in my home and the only flicker I notice is the kitchen ceiling fan lights - 1 flicker - caused by the laser printer coming to life for a print job. The printer is in the next room but may well be off the same circuit. ps : have you tried dimmable vs non dimmable ? I think all of mine are dimmable .. John T.
Constantly
My sister can see 60 Hz and 120 Hz flicker. Gives her a massive headache. She still uses incandescent bulbs because of it.
I've worked in the 25 Hz flicker -
_very noticable_
Hope you / she find a solution. John T.
Shouldn’t be on the same circuit since lights are on a lighting circuit and power points are on a separate higher current rating circuit. At least, that’s the way it’s done here.
____ Xeno
Not everyone lives on Xenon.
Not even me! ;-)
____ Xeno
Found these
And here is their high speed camera demonstration:
When I added electrical service to a shed in my back yard, I added a 15-amp circuit for lighting and a 20-amp circuit for receptacles. In my house, however, the builders created one 20-amp circuit per room, mostly. Bedrooms 3 & 4 are on the same circuit. There is no area of the house where there's a separate circuit for lighting and receptacles. I wish there was.
Yup, when an appliance trips a breaker or blows a fuse, the lights go out and you're in the dark. Not good.
Depends on how many circuits there are.
Not all houses are wired properly. Clueless homeowners do a lot of strange stuff. I once saw a house that used lamp cord instead of Romex in an attic--and it was laid on top of the joists where it might get pinched if someone laid down plywood for walking in the attic.
LOL, yes. My house was once owned by a bosun's mate who fanied he was an extrician. Almost 30 years later, we are still rooting out bad wiring.
I've been using these for a couple of years now:
In fact, the description includes: "No flicker or strobe. Each bulb is stict (sic) tested before ship, no need to worry about the problem you suffered before with other bulbs such as flicker, strobe, glare and color rendition. Healthy for every member of your family. "
-dan z-
It is "T", trolling you. The frequency used in LED lights cannot be distinguished by the human eye as "flicker" (aside some special purpose bulbs like christmas lights).
Mine was a new house in Baltimore owned first by a man from Louisiana. He was always cold here so he caulked like crazy. Except he couldn't caulk a straight line and around the doors, it got over the bricks outside. He also taped all the windows around the edges, but not very neatly. They already had storm windows but maybe he had put a layer of vinyl under the tape. (Bought the house in May so he would have taken the vinyl off.) I could get the tape off but there was stickum left behind.
He also put extra wall on 3 sides of his bedroom. Each wall was done differently. He explained each one to me but I forget a couple details, but when I put wiring in the rear wall I saw that he had put pink insulation and another layer of sheetrock. Something similar on the side wall (which also covered the phone jack, so I had to put in another phone jack). And the wall next to the other townhouse next door he put in a layer of cork and a layer of sheetrock. He might have moved the clothes rod forward to make up for this and it was still deep enough to hang things up and close the doors.
The cork was for noise, and the other two walls were for warmth, and I'm sure they help a bit.
T trolls so much you can't tell if he's just crying wolf or being serious. If he's being serious, I suspect the flicker he's complaining about is due to either overloaded or poorly wired electrical service in his home rather than either from what his electric company is providing or from the circuitry inside his bulbs. The flicker he's complaining about is probably due to short duration voltage drops when a high current device turns on (heat pump, refrigerator, etc.) If he lives in a multi-unit dwelling and the wiring is sketchy or the building's service panel supplies insufficient current, the source of the voltage drop might not even be in his unit. I have several Phillips LED bulbs and none of them flicker except very briefly when I turn on a laser printer.
I have some in the kitchen that sometime flicker when dining room fixture with dimmer switch is turned on and changing the dimmer can stop the flicker.
T is certainly not reliable, to say the least, but dyno dan posted bulbs that advertise "no flicker", so it makes me think that maybe some do,
Do LED bulbs flicker, gives a lot of hits in google.
Here is one that seems longer than others and maybe the OP (oh, that's T!) should read.
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