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Zak 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PWM flicker: Invisible light that's harming our he...

A linear regulator might also reasonably be described as "DC dimming" or "constant current". The article is only concerned with flicker so it doesn't discuss efficiency.

wrs 11 months ago [–]

It could be, but I doubt you’ll find any commercial LED driver that is a linear regulator, so I don’t think that’s what they mean.

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