[DoktorDoris]

Originally Posted by scorpion9 ↗

Here, id like to quickly mention an interesting fact.
LED lights emit light as long as electricity flows through them. If you power your home/street lights etc with LED lights, then those lights will all flicker because our homes use alternating current. This means that the current in your LED lights drops to zero many times per second and they turn off. This is an unintentional type of flickering.
This can be very dangerous in industrial or garage settings when using power tools. You could look at a spinning saw blade and see it standing completely still.

What you are describing is an intentional flickering, to save power. Flashlights and cars use direct current from battery and in these cases, LED lights would not normal flicker. If they do, then its intentional.

RE: about car head lights flashing. I'm not so sure about it being the case of saving power though. I don't know much about cars, but it seems like an impractical use case since cars have alternators to provide continuous power most of the time. Car headlights flickering can often be a deliberate/faulty software controlled self leveling headlight calibration thing. There are some pulse modulated lights as well, but i don't know how common those are.


RE: why use pulsing lights when clearing trenches etc? Well, as others have already said, it's disorienting and makes perceiving movement more difficult. It also wont allow your eyes to adjust to either light nor dark. If the light is always on, your eyes will get used to the light within seconds. It the lights are off, the defender who has been in the dark for a while has the advantage since his eyes have adjusted to the dark.

you have missed the point, I am afraid.
LEDs are often not constantly driven. to save power and prevent heat build up they are driven by a fast duty cycle, the light is off and then on, up to many thousands of times a second. this also allows the light level can be changed, by having the ratio on and off change.

[kellyhound]

In Novogrodivka, Donetsk region a Ukrainian fighter was killed by a sword with the inscription on the sword: For Kursk.

1. Multiple drone droppings wounding and ending the life of several russian soldiers.

2. BMP-2 in the Donets direction gets hit and destroyed.

3. russian soldier becomes dogfood.

4. Black 6 Naval unit destroying enemy activities.

5. Anti-aircraft fighters shot down an enemy drone, Orlan-10 type, in the Pokrovski direction.

6. Drones with an anti-tank mines installed making russian armor go boom.

7. Third Assault District in the Kharkiv Oblast killed 166 enemy fighters in the past 2 weeks.