> No, the diodes don't, the drivers do. You are speaking to a technical audience ;) I've seen 'drivers' that are nothing more than a resistor in series with th

> No, the diodes don't, the drivers do. You are speaking to a technical audience ;) I've seen 'drivers' that are nothing more than a resistor in series with the LED. So the LED, acting as a half-wave rectifier, causes the flicker. To your point, in this case the LED should be considered part of the driver.