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Default LED car lights flicker - no need!

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Major Scott wrote:
Pulsing an LED is a way of getting a higher light output from it
without overheating. Overheating an LED kills it in short order.


Take for example the brake/tail lights. These are often pulsed for tail
and on for brake. So what you said doesn't make sense. Anything less
than full voltage on (as for brake) will be lower heat.


LEDs are current, not voltage, driven.

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