[Solved] Flickering of LED bulbs using a 2.2 uF capacitor in switches without neutral

Hi colleagues (and friends of course)!

I suspect that also most of you have a lighting installation without a neutral cable. In that case, capacitors are used with all those "smart" switches.

In my set, there were such as in the photo:



Here just 2.2 uF. But I don't know if it's a matter of capacitance or the quality of these capacitors, or maybe the low wattage of the led bulbs, but unfortunately you can see that they gently flicker when switched on.

Do you have any ideas about this? Any advice

I would appreciate a reply from experienced colleagues (or colleagues of course ).

ra_dzik wrote:

Do you have any ideas on this? Any advice?

Connect two such in parallel, or use a larger one.

Just no more or the LEDs will start to light up permanently, first 1 micro or even less to keep things going.

It's @freebsd who writes to parallel, i.e. increase the capacitance, and @klamocik who writes to give a smaller 1uF, well I've turned a corner. Should these be smaller or bigger?

And can I use another type instead of polypropylene ones, so that the dimensions of these capacitors are smaller?
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Dimensionally smaller you won't find it, and whether the capacity is larger or smaller is your judge. But to be sure, swap one led for a regular incandescent and you'll rule out low wattage.

I changed the capacitors and also inserted higher wattage led bulbs