On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 04:16:35 -0000, Clare Snyder wrote:

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:21:41 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 12/19/18 6:01 AM, William Gothberg wrote:

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They probably are fairly crude. I know they flicker, for example if I
use my cordless drill, the chuck appears to spin the wrong way under the
LED lighting.
I remember seeing that with a washing machine (under fluorescent
lights). As the tub was slowing down, the row of holes around the tub
would appear to reverse direction. Same thing with (spoked) wagon wheels
in movies.

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Very obvious with flourescents.

Fluorescents can operate from DC, but you'd need a resistive ballast, which wastes energy. But you could use an invertor to make very high frequency AC to stop visible flicker.