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NT wrote:
On Sep 5, 11:59 pm, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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NT wrote:

The LED would need a rectifier of course.

You just parallel a reverse connected diode to the LED for AC. Plus a
suitable current limiting resistor, of course.

you can, but the resulting flicker is terrible. Worth going for 100Hz
flicker imho. That also gets you half the capacitor size.

I suppose it depends on the individual but I didn't notice it.

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