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  1. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    GOT IT! I wish to thank everyone who participated in this discussion. I had planned first to buy a different brand of bulb to try, but it didn't make sense not to first try the larger capacitance, as i had those lying around, well not larger, but I paralleled two .47uf, making .94uf and now it's...
  2. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Oh, yeah, the low wattage bulb works perfectly, circuits energized or not, and replacing the switches with SPST & DPST also would work, but I'm still hoping for a work-around, which would be a more perfect inexpensive solution.
  3. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    "the switch steals power through the load..." They studied a different electronics than I did. I've looked at that site and they recommend what the manufacturers claim their limits are, which is kind of a pull and plug mentality; I was looking for work-arounds to those limitations. Guess I'm too...
  4. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    There should be no noise except when a signal is sent, ON/OFF/DIM/BRIGHT. The issue with this dimmer--and most others--is that when turned off, there's still minute current present, unless of course, the master switch of the dimmer is off. What I'm seeing is random flashing of the lights when...
  5. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Adam, The RC circuit is somewhat taking the load from the circuit without, I'm thinking, burning energy (I have not tested for current, but the circuits themselves are at ambient temperature--and, in fact, the RC circuits are replacing a 4w lamp I started out with). KrisBlue, The dimmer in...
  6. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Even if they're less expensive (the prices I've seen are $50 apiece), our entire house has these dimmers on our security system, so I'm not wont to replace them, especially not in the number we would be exchanging for our incandescents as they burn out.
  7. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    They are, about $50 apiece. And, as we start replacing bulbs, we'll be looking to replace the incandscents with LEDs--which would be very expensive, and I don't want to go to analog switches because our lighting system is a part of our security system.
  8. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    There's a single pole on the 2-lamp circuit and a 3-way on the 6.
  9. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    According to some, what I am looking for is a network that will correct this without spending $100 on two switches.
  10. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Yes, all are dimmable, that's why I'm trying to keep the switches. I could put in regular singles and 3-ways to correct this; but hoping not to.
  11. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Those two flickering are on the one circuit, the 6-bulb circuit remains steady (if you can see it--it's a pretty small video--there's one can on the track light on the ceiling that's steady).
  12. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Yes both light circuits are on dimmer switches. I added the RC circuit to control some pretty erratic behavior, such as when the circuits are de-energized, all of the bulbs would blink in random order. I'm hoping to find a solution to this so as not to have to replace the dimming switches.
  13. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Here's a video of what's happening, I had to make it pretty small to conform to the forum's file size limit.
  14. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Thanx, Adam, but I still get a flicker with two and two.
  15. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    The LEDs are all 2,700K, dimmable, the 6-lamp circuit is spaced some 8x6' on the ceiling (track lights) and the other two are hanging lamps over a kitchen bar (they're all the same, BR30 bulbs).
  16. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    Oops, Please forgive, I had redrawn my initial schematic and took out the leg on Circuit #1, but overlooked Circuit #2. I edited the OP and inserted an updated graphic. If line interference is causing the flicker, shouldn't it do so on both circuits, or even circuit #2 when energized alone?
  17. Tipiford

    Flickering light (LED) circuit

    I have introduced RC circuits to two LED lamp circuits on the same electrical leg (the RC circuits prohibit the LEDs from blinking when turned off on a dimmable switch). When either lamp circuit is turned on, it behaves normally, but when both are turned on, the one circuit with two LEDs...
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