New LED Street Lights in My Neighborhood

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Parley

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What a difference this makes. No more AC voltage wave cycles to deal with plus a nice bright white light. Now I have to go back and readjust my cameras. I have already upped the shutter speed on a lot of them. The problem for this time of year is that it does not get dark until after 9PM and I am in bed by then. Hahahahaha. Here is a photo from my overview camera at midnight.

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Our city began rolling out LED lights more than eight years ago. :headbang:

Soon after dozens to hundreds of these new lights began to output a purple hue?!? :(

If you’ve ever seen a old school florescent tube light emit the same light colour. You know it has a whole bunch of other random colours mixed in with the (perceived) purple colour.

This specific colour induces eye strain and headaches . . . After this, the so called latest LED generation of lights began to strobe!!

Anyone who knows people with special health issues this can induce a seizure! :angry:

Later found out all of these lights were covered by the manufacturer under warranty. As expected the hundreds of lights turned into thousands of lights that needed to be replaced! :facepalm:

It’s been five years since I reported one specific street light having the problems I noted up above.

The 311 ticket indicates it will be serviced and replaced in 2025 - 2026?!?! :oops:
 
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I found out the hard way about those strobing fluorescent light way back in 58! The lights were
turned on and out I went! I do hate some of the car light as they strobe too. Even now I close my eyes when
I turn on lights.
 
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Are you getting any flickering from the new LEDs? When I installed my runway lighting (20k lumen panel lights), I was getting the rolling black bars unless the shutter was set to 1/120. A shame since with that amount of light, I'm sure I could go a bit faster with the shutter but at least it let me turn down the gain.

The 4K-Xs were the most sensitive to this. And these aren't cheap lights. Built by Osram.
 
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CanCuba said:
Are you getting any flickering from the new LEDs? When I installed my runway lighting (20k lumen panel lights), I was getting the rolling black bars unless the shutter was set to 1/120. A shame since with that amount of light, I'm sure I could go a bit faster with the shutter but at least it let me turn down the gain.

The 4K-Xs were the most sensitive to this. And these aren't cheap lights. Built by Osram.
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Nope. I can now go to as high a shutter speed that I want. I have a neighbor a few houses up the street, and when his porch light is on, I can see the A/C cycle wave from it. It is too far away to affect my cameras.

Edit: I had not noticed this before until I raised my shutter speeds.
 
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Parley said:
Nope. I can now go to as high a shutter speed that I want. I have a neighbor a few houses up the street, and when his porch light is on, I can see the A/C cycle wave from it. It is too far away to affect my cameras.

Edit: I had not noticed this before until I raised my shutter speeds.
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That's terrific. I'm sure I could go a bit faster than 1/120 but I get the bars. There is a neighbour who leaves his kitchen light on at night and it flickers.
 
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