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Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?

I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you're on.

Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.

I can't sleep well if there's a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it's like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.

All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.

The fans have them.

Don't even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about

Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.

Even some fucking light switches have them now!

I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.

Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?

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[–] someguy3 197 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Electrical tape to black it out.

Painters tape to dim it.

[–] Russianranger 49 points 1 year ago

The electrical tape approach is what I did and it did wonders. Went from having a myriad of green and blue LEDs on my fans/portable AC/etc to complete wonderful darkness when I retired for the night. Made a distinct difference in my ability to fall asleep faster at night. I hate having lights when going to bed. Darkness or bust.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can actually buy tinted tape to dim them without completely blacking them out. So you can take your clock from “bright enough to keep your entire bedroom lit” to “just bright enough to read in the dark.”

Found out while watching Technology Connections. Bright blue monochromatic LEDs are one of his biggest pet peeves, and he mentioned the tinted tape off-hand in one of his videos.

[–] GrandMoffFartin 6 points 1 year ago

I bought some pre-cut led dimming stickers on a sheet. Any new electronics that come into my house get one. As someone who likes to sleep in near complete darkness it's a must have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep I have a pack of various shapes and sizes for dimming LEDs. You just stick it over the light. Works great

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

May the LED's I tape not light the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With the tape over the LEDs you can look back though. You won't be blinded. It'll be OK.

[–] Sarcastik 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I literally travel with a roll of black electric tape for this exact reason.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No officer, I use it to cover the lights on electronics in my hotel room. Honest!

[–] JonVonBasslake 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, just carry a small roll of it, not one that's like an inch or two wide...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for reminding me. Gotta pack that for my next holiday.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Didn't think about the painters tape for just dimming the light, great idea.

[–] baru 6 points 1 year ago

I have a black pen that can write on plastic. I've used that to dim the insanely bright LED on a smoke detector. If you are careful (I wasn't) then this method looks nicer than putting some tape on a device.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Use cut pieces of sticky notes. It's the correct width and doesnt look as jank

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use tiny balls of patafix/blutac to cover exactly the LED surface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

....or one or more layers of nail polish.