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woadwarrior01today at 12:25 PM1 replyview on HN

> Nobody makes fun of LED light bulbs because (up front cost aside) they are wildly superior to incandescent.

There's burgeoning movement called "PWM sensitive"[1] that's opposed to (cheap) LED lights.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/PWM_Sensitive/


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Liftyeetoday at 1:00 PM

The frequencies that they claim affect them are disputable but the flickering in some cheap LED lights is real. Badly/cheaply designed electronics can have flicker as bad as 50 Hz if they use half bridge diode rectification only (e.g. that time I was passing through Geneva airport and the Christmas lights flickered in my peripheral vision)

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