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by tzs 8 days ago
> Actual PWM ICs drive LEDs over 10,000 hz, which is truly imperceptible to the human eye.

But then you can get capacitors or inductors emitting a very annoying 10 kHz whine. There are higher end LEDs for various commercial uses that use PWM at over 20 kHz to avoid that.