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This morning i noticed the license plate lights in the bumper flash at weird frequency ONLY AS SEEN through the tailgate camera.
if you go look at them they are steady
now before i updated to the unreal engine ...these lights did not flash.
that being said my HD security cameras are fast enough to see the LEDS on drls flash so i guess what i am asking is does the onboard tailgate camera have that good of detection?
it was weird, and i didnt want to have flashing license plate lights to johnny law does not have a reason to pull me over. not that i have anything to hide, but i dont like unnecessary encounters when i am out side of my county, like DALLAS or back springs
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It's actually a little different than you think. Most cheaper cameras will detect LEDs flashing, that's how LEDs work. The cameras that don't show the LEDS flashing usually just have longer shutter speeds to let me light in. The human eye will never see them.

LEDs will always just flash on camera and not to the human eyes, unless they are going bad. I've had cheap LED replacements that started flashing. So, there's no worry that you'll be pulled over for them unless you have a burnt-out LED headlight.
 

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To expand on this, the flicker effect is typically found with cheaper or single emitter LED lights. There are flicker-free LEDs that are built with multiple diodes that pulse at overlapping periods or higher quality single chip diodes that have a significantly higher pulse frequency so cameras and our eyes cannot detect it.
 
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To expand on this, the flicker effect is typically found with cheaper or single emitter LED lights. There are flicker-free LEDs that are built with multiple diodes that pulse at overlapping periods or higher quality single chip diodes that have a significantly higher pulse frequency so cameras and our eyes cannot detect it.
my house cameras will see flicker on the truck when you unlock the doors, then once it starts its steady state bright. my f250 did the same thing , except it would show rolling leds off and on as they went around the bezel when you unlocked the doors it was odd
 
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To expand on this, the flicker effect is typically found with cheaper or single emitter LED lights. There are flicker-free LEDs that are built with multiple diodes that pulse at overlapping periods or higher quality single chip diodes that have a significantly higher pulse frequency so cameras and our eyes cannot detect it.
AKA, PWM from LED drivers.👍🏻
 

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maybe this is why the stock lights are incandescent?
 

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