[Boatanchors] LED's instead of lamps in boatanchors???

[shoppa_boatanchors at trailing-edge.com]

rrkrr <rrkrr at comcast.net> wrote:
> Did you do anything special to provide a DC supply for the LEDs, like a 
> voltage regulator, or did you just add a rectifier and capacitor?  I 
> assume the flicker would be annoying if you ran the LEDs on 60 Hz AC.

The typical LED-in-a-boatanchor installation
involves at least three stages of DC regulation, resulting in both
a voltage-limited and current-limited supply based around the very
latest in bandgap regulators, often with supervisory regulation
and power-up-power-down dimming provided by a team of PIC microcontrollers
and, in the very latest, Ethernet connection to the internet via a
dedicated ADSL modem and Cisco router.

Honestly, it's even worse than the never-ending solid-state R390A
ballast tube replacements.

Tim.