10 Reasons Why Your LED Lights Keep Flickering

***Update for ripple effect issue see the products below, they fix the issue 100%, dimmer and downlights must be used together.

Flickering lights can be caused by many different factors, whether your led downlights are flickering, halogen lights are flickering or maybe your bulbs only flicker when they are dimmed. We touch on the top 10 reasons why your lights could be flickering and give you some things to try to hopefully get them back to normal.

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Load bypass to fix ripple effect

0:00 Intro
0:34 Dimmer Compatibility
1:50 Non-Dimmable Products
2:20 Faulty Drivers - LED Strips Strobing
3:22 Ripple Effect
4:48 Loose Connections
5:24 Dirty Sockets
5:51 Overload Circuits- LED Strips Strobing
6:44 Faulty Light Switch
7:15 Push Button Dimmers
7:47 Current Inrush
8:23 Table & Floor Lamps Flickering
9:05 Conclusion

[Rosk]

LED problems is often a combination of ''everything mentioned'' in this very informative video. Bad dimmer, crappy led, loose connections & high voltage surges... Everybody was hating on incandescent a few years back. Now we all buying them again ! LOL

[TK-setophaga]

Good explanation. One of my LEDs flickers for a minute then stops. The same light does not flicker in other sockets. Other LEDs do not flicker in the problem socket. All wirenuts upstream retightened and breaker tightened. Voltage a constant 122.1 (U.S.). You gave me more to think about.

[bobslater]

What is going to happen if & when your countrey goes electric?

[rinzler]

Lol - I was here for the ripple effect problem.

[defan]

I have a table lamp with NO DIMMER in it...but it still flickers. It is a nice quality lamp with a Sylvania bulb in it and it doesn't flicker for a time then it goes crazy again. I have replaced the entire cord running to the wall and through the lamp now, new socket..and still the same thing. A conventional bulb, no problem, but any brand or size of LED it won't work. I took it to our local electrician to check my work and he too is puzzled. Is there a special type of socket to use with the newer LED bulbs?

[saimaparveen]

Cab lights flicker by messing with the power surge, I have nusiance neighbours I live below, b4 my lights flicker I here bare footsteps around my lighting area and I can hear sounds like fiddling, I think they've got hold of the powersurge

[binkytube]

I wish all LED lights were obsolete. They ruin the night sky, they blind you when driving from oncoming cars and they even change the colour of items, so you're unsure of the correct colour (for people who rely on colour design). They are just awful.

[charliecramp]

FL company gave me led lights. 2 days later my switch died. I switched it out now the lights flicker when washer is on. Why?

[irawolf]

One other flicker: outdoor light fixtures. Cause: the photoelectric eyes on outdoor incandescent light fixtures allow a little current through the sensor to power it. The amount of current is not enough to turn on an incandescent bulb but is enough to trigger flickering in a replacement LED light. Solution: replace photoelectric eye with an LED compatible one, or do what I did - face the light-blocking, reflective side of the LED light outward so the clear side faces the house. Sufficient, though less lumens are presented, but the flickering is no longer visible. 😂

[toycarpgmr]

LED lights are a scam. They do not last as long as advertised. They should work without having to rewire the house.

[MarkoSpeaks]

LED lamps are terrible especially for rental properties. U cant just replace a light bulb u have to have a handyman replace the whole light fixture!!

[SJROnline]

I'm sorry team the MMBP does not fix RIPPLE -This advice is not accurate - it is incorrect. If you have been selling this to fix ripple it cannot work. Halogen and tungsten lamps ARE impacted by this - the human eye just cannot always see it due to thermal inertia in the filament. There is a serious lack of factual information in this video guys - suggest you recall it and plug the holes.

[philovermyer]

So because the internet is pure cancer now to find solutions to problems, I'm going to ask in a comment section hoping for an answer that I'm not going to get because rather than provide anything useful the internet seeks to just churn out pointless content. I had my LED strip unplugged for 2 weeks, go to plug it in and it starts flashing purple, off, green, off, in 1 second increments in a cycle. They aren't a hodgepodge of pieces that are soldered together and duct taped, the A/C adapter came with the lights so it's not a voltage issue it's not a power supply issue. If I unplug the adapter, the lights continue to flicker in their rotation for almost a solid minute. I have tried to turn them off with the remote, it doesn't respond. I've tried turning it off at the adapter, it doesn't respond. The circuit isn't broken, because all of the individual LEDs light up. I am at a complete loss as to what to do, and yes I could purchase more LEDs and take down the old ones but that's not ultimately a helpful solution to the problem at hand.

[IcarusTECH]

Some of the worst studio lighting from a so-called lighting store I've ever seen in a video, ouch :/

[SJROnline]

Matching manufacturers LED downlights and dimmers is absolutely not true. There is no guarantee this will work, and manufacturers DO NOT guarantee this - this is not good advice IMO. Finding brands that work reliably together is certainly the best appraoch.

[jonsmith]

Buy good quality bulbs and you'll have no problems. It's all about quality

[deborahmcnaughton]

I can not understand much what you saying? Too thick of accent? Lol 😂 sorry. I turned on the cc. To read what you are saying.