Absolutely - the way he described it sounded like a horrendous accident waiting to happen, especially for smaller / home shops where the operator may not be awa

Absolutely - the way he described it sounded like a horrendous accident waiting to happen, especially for smaller / home shops where the operator may not be aware of the problem. He was under the expectation that LEDs solved this problem, though he is using drop-in LED tubes that may have some better persistence through the off-cycles. I do some occasional wood-turning, but usually augmented with ambient daylight - along with the dubious safety advantage of having a very noisy electric motor. Plus I'm old enough to have used a timing light hanging off a distributor on my first car. Try explaining that to the kids of today. ; )