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Thread #88031   Message #1648549
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
14-Jan-06 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Stagecoach wheels running backwards
Subject: RE: BS: Stagecoach wheels running backwards
Flourescent lights provide a strobe effect as well as strobes 'proper' and movie cameras. If you get chance look at the wheels of passing vehicles next time you are on a well lit motorway.

For this very reason it was deemed not a good idea to have strip lighting in workshops running lathes, drills etc. Imagine a drill turining at 60000 rpm and a light flickering a thousand times a second in synchonisation? - Looks like the dril has stopped. And believe it or not it did happen more than once in the past with dire consequences:-(

Cheers

DtG