Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition

Beacon@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I actually ran my outside lights on rectified DC power last year because the flicker kills me

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Say more about this. I also don’t like flicker

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Short answer, cut an extension cord in the middle and solder in a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER.

      This gives you DC power. Now your lights will not flicker. They are also like 50% brighter.

      But wait! The catch is that a lot of the strings are reversed in the middle so only half of it works on dc. You then have to cut the lights in the middle, swap the wires, and reconnect them.

      Its a lot of farting around but looks nice.

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dunno. I just bought the Sylvannia led traditional white lights. Flicker free. Finally.

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  • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That's what's so stupid about the whole problem - the solution is known and easy but it costs a tiny bit more to make so lots of manufacturers don't do it. It just needs to run off DC instead of AC. Simple.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wonder if you could use four of the LEDs themselves to form a full bridge rectifier?

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Electroboom needs a lemmy

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that’s not much more.

        Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.

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      • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How?

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  His obsession over color quality while ignoring the flicker is very annoying.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He mentions flicker several times in the video.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I meant ignore in the context that he said it doesn’t personally bother him.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I may never understand why people get pissed at creators focusing on an issue they are passionate about - because that viewers specific issue wasn’t mentioned or focused on. Surely there is content that aligns with what you are seeking without forcing every other creator to monologe out every possible edge case like a US drug advert reading out side effects.

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      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But he mentions that there is stuff coming for flicker-sensitive folks.

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