PJB12
Well-Known Member
Some LED bulbs can't be dimmed without flickering, if at all. The package will say if they are dimmable. (Same with fluorescent bulbs.) Some LED dim beautifully & smoothly.I hate dimmers. They make LEDs blink like fluorescent bulbs and I hate that. Only place I ever had a dimmer was in the dining room of our house in California. Never really had a need for them. I like my lights to either be off or super bright.
Most dimmers for incandescent lights won't dim a LED or will cause the flickering you described. The standard incandescent dimmer varies the voltage, often with a variable resistor (rheostat). Some more expensive ones modulate the pulse width (PWM type). There are many more methods of dimming incandescent.
A few PWM will operate incandescent and dimmable LED bulbs.
PWM LED dimmers tend to clip the lamp at 10% brightness. (Unless the problem has been solved by now.)
Analog LED dimmers vary the forward current for a smoother dimming all the way to zero. Again, the bulb has to be dimmable.
Confused?
Dimmable LED plus Dimmer for LED = √
Paul
PS: Sounds like the police had no kind of empathy at all. Surely seems unfair.
For what it is worth, I was a police officer in the city and got laid off years ago. I still have my plates & union sticker. They don't help in the suburbs.
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