Flickering LED lighting? Here's what's really happening

Just because your lights are flickering, doesn't mean that your house is haunted.
Or even that the LED bulb or fixture is dead. Actually, there's something else going on, let an electrical engineer fill you in on what's happening, and if this can be fixed.
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[@stevenhaley443]

If you want to watch a video of flashing lights with no hint of how to correct the problem, then you are in the right place.

[@ogopogo1397]

EXACTLY

[@echt114]

Oh they do give you the magic solution: "Give DC power to the things that need DC power." Of course consumers have to deal with AC electricity from their power companies, so there must be an AC to DC converter to light the bulb. The drivers they put in the bulbs to do this are cheapass things that degrade due to heat and fail.

[@jec_ecart]

It's absolutely the bulb. Modern bulbs are crappy with poor filtering.

[@swompy5146]

Excellent video if i want to read while using TH-cam and not get information

[@lazzer408]

No. They need a rectifier FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!! to convert AC to DC. A filter to smooth the ripple. THEN a driver to limit/regulate current to the LED. It all creates heat. If anything fails due to heat, it was a poor design to begin with.

[@raj66kas]

You answered my question/problem.

[@Truckguy735]

So people been saying LED light bulbs don't last long. There's something to that. The base of the LED light bulb gets overheated. If there's not a lot of circulation and then the chip gets Overheated and it dies.

[@fp274]

it is the bulb, I did allot of testing and found the problem is in the bulb, the PCB with the LEDs most of them you will find the connection from circuit its about 60 volts dc i paced a capacitor 0,47nF/ 150v no flickering no buzz nothing, works fine

[@AngeliqueStidhum]

This font is hard to read

[@jonsmith7667]

I call BS, I have some LEDs that are in the west end of my kitchen that are 6+ years now with out a flicker ever, I put some cheaper brands ( Noma from Canadian Tire) in the east side and they flickered after about a month. I returned them for replacements and got another month before they flickered again. This time I demanded and got my money back and bought Some higher quality ones and things are all good again. Good quality bulbs won't flicker simple as that. Whoever is in charge of advertising should ensure that a bulb should last and perform as advertised. Was the same with CFLs , its stupid governing that allows crap products.

[@vcwloves9864]

For me, regardless of brand, I still have issues. I just ordered Halogen lights online to fix the problem. They're getting harder to find though.

[@lingquer]

I have same issue with Noma bulbs, I'm going to use them as my exterior lights for Halloween, gonna help the mood a lot

[@Opnwindo]

The lights are on as often as they are off, they all Flicker at a certain rate

[@lawdale]

excellent video

[@AlfredoVILLANUEVA-ib8lr]

what a waste of time your video is.