Not a ham question, but…
I'm annoyed by the flicker of LED Christmas light chains. No, I can't see it in a steady gaze, but when my eyes move I can.
Have any of you tried feeding DC to these lights? A full-wave rectifier all by itself might help. A decent capacitor for those voltages, and a big inductor…
The chains are multi-segment, my idea won't work so well if they are alternating polarity. Maybe feed them a higher frequency AC? Make like an airplane and use 400Hz?
@kentborg different chains of lights might be wired differently, but yep! I had the same annoyance with chains of lights so I fed them DC and just accepted every other bulb not being lit.
In fact as the LEDs wore out over time I would switch the polarity of the DC to light up the other half and renew the chain.
