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bombcar on March 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: There's something off about LED bulbs

I've taken to just replacing fixtures instead of trying to make bulbs work with existing, though I'm --> <-- this close to just throwing them all away and going back to kerosene lanterns and some incandescents.

dawnerd on March 30, 2023 [–]

That's what I did and the flickering didn't go away. I don't like the idea of buying fully integrated led fixtures though. Although I might just cave.

bombcar on March 31, 2023 | [–]

The fixtures with separate voltage converters in their own box seem to not flicker - but test before but.

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