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[–] Anivia@feddit.org 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And it's often on purpose because the driver is smoothing out the mains input and/or supports dimmers. A tiny delay is worth it to have an LED that doesn't flicker

You really don't want a bargain bin LED where the driver is just a half bridge rectifier and a resistor in series with the LED