timmy Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 My icicles flicker when they fade down. This is my first year with LOR and I have three sets everywhere so I can change the color of my house. I have white, blue, and multi. The white are particularly flickery (if that's a word). Is there something I can do to get this corrected or do I have to change all of my sequences. They seemed to dim ok just if it pauses on a certain percentage while fading they look spastic. The individual strands of all colors seem fine just not my icicles.Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jem5136 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Are the lights LEDs? If they are, they may be half wave LEDs which will look "flickery" when they fade. I have some from Big Lots that look fine at 100% but if I try to fade them, they get flickery and I think it is because they are only half wave LEDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmy Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 Yes they are all LED. I bought all the same brand. They are from Wal Mart. They are Holiday Time brand. I couldn't figure out why my columns and windows were fine. You just made me reallize the columns and windows are Phillips from Target instead of the ones from Wal Mart. Not to sound too stupid but what is half wave. It's starting to look like I should have stayed with incans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjdurrant Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Sounds like you need Snubbers.. look a few threads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjdurrant Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 http://lightorama.mywowbb.com/forum80/23984.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Wingert Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 JJ's correct. Snubbers should eliminate the flicker. Even with full wave the more strands you have connected together possiblly brings that not-so-smooth into effect.You made a wise choice with LED's. Just need to fix the problem. They are much brighter lights. My display has never looked so good since i switched to LED'shttp://forums.planetchristmas.com/showthread.php/37562-Easiest-Terminators-Snubbers-to-make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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