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That's interesting. We switched to LED bulbs in our living room and after that our eldest dog would not settle, I thought maybe the bulbs had a low humming nois
by throwitaway9 7y ago
That's interesting. We switched to LED bulbs in our living room and after that our eldest dog would not settle, I thought maybe the bulbs had a low humming noise he didn't like but it could have been a flicker instead. We switched back and he was fine again.
- clairity 7y agohmmm, the first 2 months of my (rescued) dog being in my home (a year ago) were anxiety-filled for her, and now i wonder if it was due to the led bulbs. she’s mostly settled now, realizing that home is good for sleep, though still gets nervous here and there. she likes being outside more but that seems to be true of dogs in general.
- WorldMaker 7y agoOr both. Some cheap LEDs have terrible high-pitched humming noises from bad AC to DC converters/transformers. (A big reason that there's a growing movement questioning if we should have more dedicated DC wires/plugs/sockets in our homes and do AC to DC conversion once for entire circuits instead at the socket/in the plug "wall wart" for every single device. Also interesting that USB A sockets are probably the closest we have to a ubiquitous home standard actually moving in that direction.)
- 205guy 7y agoMy wife was sensitive to the flickering of CFLs and LEDs running on AC, so we installed some dedicated 12V DC circuits in our house and they are really great. We run strings of DC LEDs from them, and they are bright and flicker-free. You can run the lights off of 12V batteries and charge those from a few solar panels, or just have one dedicated high-quality AC-DC transformer for the DC circuits.