Not aware of the show you mention. "I would imagine that with the
LED edison bulbs, you won't have that same issue. Is this true or have I been going at it the wrong way?"
Are we talking about long
filament (
LED)
strand LED lamps that have strands of
LED as per a long
strand vintage lamp
filament for decorative
effect? Flashing
thru incandescent lamps as with
halogen lamps is normally ok given your
dimmer trim settings of a warming
current thru them. Flashing
thru LED lamps can at times be a problem given a little
lag time but should also work assuming a lot - but should work fine if strobing and not dimming smoothly down to the lower levels. Dimmable
LED's can also be a problem on dimmers short of a
dummy load in bringing them up in wattage to about 75 watts in load on the
dimmer. Old lamps can blow, but the warming
current thru them on the dimmers should prevent any "pop". As above but not as much a believer in it, setting the 90% upper threashold you could do, but not as important if a lamp is already warmend by the dimmers. In fact, a pre-warmend
incandescent lamp I don't think will pop faster than a
LED lamp given the conditions..
When that
filament goes... who knows, but the warming
dimmer current helps. When that
LED goes, who knows in also I would guess if
chase lighting on a
dimmer also not living up to 50,000 hours at some
point. I would think for a
LED the chopping
current warmaing electricity of a normal
dimmer would possibly become a problem to the electronics of the
LED to produce a shorter life.
If you have a
stock of
incandescent lamps, I don't think any good reason not to burn
thru them and wait for the future on going
LED for the
effect. Saves money now and later the tech will be better in being ready for it.