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Originally Posted by noshit
More reason... The flicker rate makes you docile.
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Strange that you bring that up... the LED lights over my desk don't seem to flicker at all, but I know exactly what you are talking about. LED lights on cars and old calculators, flicker, the way old CRT monitors used to flicker, but these LED's don't. Maybe since there are 5 LED's in each "bulb", each light is slightly out of phase with the other, so the flicker is masked? I'm just guessing....
You reminded me of something: One of my first jobs was selling computers in a computer store. The store had a showroom with about 10 monitors and 10 computers running. I bet my boss ten bucks that from a distance, I could instantly which monitor was the best one, and which was the worst one, with a cookie.
Of course he called bullshit and one day at lunch he challenged me. He told me he re arranged all the monitors and to come into the show room and prove my point.
So I grabbed an oreo cookie or 2, and stood so I could see all of the monitors all at a single glance, and then start eating the cookies. It also helped that they were in the fridge and were cold and harder than usual.
The CRUNCH the cookie made when I bit into it made my head and/or eyes jiggle slightly. As this happened, the images of all of the monitors would bounce slightly, creating a weird blurry "strobe" illusion. The monitor that had the most "strobes" during the "crunch" was the best one because it had the highest refresh rate. The one with the fewest "strobes" was the cheaper monitor because its refresh rate was lower. I won the $10.