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General Science / Re: Why do LED tail lights trail to me and not to the rest of my family?
« on: 22/12/2013 23:52:20 »
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in order to map time on to the horizontal axis.
It shows that the lights are emitting sharp pulses that are no longer in duration
than about a fifth of the interval between them. For comparison, smooth trails of incandescent lights are elsewhere
in the picture.
This flickering of Cadillac tail lights is distracting to me, though no one else in my family can see it.
My hunch is that they are ... driving the leds with short duration, high current, pulses.Geezer is right: here's a photo of a Cadillac SUV I took today, panning the camera rapidly as the shot was taken,
I have noticed that the LED lights on Cadillac SUVs are particularly annoying. I thought it was just because they turn on so quickly, but maybe I'm detecting the strobe without realizing it.
in order to map time on to the horizontal axis.
It shows that the lights are emitting sharp pulses that are no longer in duration
than about a fifth of the interval between them. For comparison, smooth trails of incandescent lights are elsewhere
in the picture.
This flickering of Cadillac tail lights is distracting to me, though no one else in my family can see it.