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Originally Posted by stevehull
There is obviously an oscillation that occurs with the CFLs and a fixed resistance stops it. But why?
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CFLs run such a horrible power factor its likely inducing some line harmonics onto the wiring. I have seen flickering like this on long strings of ballast powered mercury lamps too.
Using a fixed purely resistive load to snuff out this inductive nonsense is a cheap trick that works really well.