Inside the flickery LED globe lamp. (With schematic.)

Having already shown the horribly flickery LED globe lamp I thought it would be interesting to take a look inside the base. Latterly I was tempted to add a smoothing capacitor, but realise that the small ceramic capacitor may be relying on the high voltage drop across the array of LEDs, and adding a cap would suddenly mean that it was exposed to a much higher voltage at switch-on with the fully discharged electrolytic capacitor. It really needs better circuitry.

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