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Originally Posted by Zach Purser
Why not just keep the LEDs turned on the whole time rather than flashing them? Seems like a simple solution.
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Having the flashing lights is actually part of complying with industrial practice and probably regulations from people like OHSA. In our factory, anything that moves has a flashing light on it. The flashing is a warning to pay attention to the machine, it might clobber you. To serve that function they have to seem to flash to the observer. This can be accomplished by either having the light on all the time, but putting it in a spinning mirror, as with the old lights, or by flashing the lights. In or plant we do it both ways, depending on the age of the machinery involved. But the new lights are all flashers.