On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:08 +0100, Dave Plowman wrote:

In article ,
Major Scott wrote:
They flicker for a reason. If they smoothed the current they might
just as well use DC direct from the battery.

No, provide them with a lower DC voltage to make them dimmer. Say 12V
for brake and 9V for tail.

I'd suggest you look up the Ladybird book of electronics to get a clue
about how LEDs work.

Here's some people discussing the same problem with torches:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...trolled-lights

And here, which mentions badly designed tail lights on Cadillacs:
http://www.nlvocables.com/blog/?p=188

And more complaints about pathetic car lights:
http://budgetlightforum.com/node/18967

For crying out loud, just increase the frequency if you're too much of a cheapskate to have a current controller in a car that cost 10s of thousands of pounds.

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