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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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[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have a lamp and that has an LED that is on all the time.

Why would a lamp have a permanently on LED? That's what I get for getting cheap crap from China, rather than premium crap from China.

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[–] Next_Position_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To piggyback on this... so many people have added permanent LED lights to the outside of their houses (at least in our area). It used to be fun to see a house or two lit up with current holiday colors, or sports team colors. But now there are several on each block, and they have become much brighter. On the 4th we were up on a hill watching fireworks and there was a lot of competition from the LED houses.

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[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't seem to find it mentioned: LEDs at night are terrible for your sleep, especially the blue ones. Among other things they suppress the melatonin release.

An article that goes into more detail and provides a citations for further research.

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[–] Willer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i agree. tho the blue light thing is blown a bit out of proportion. The luminance just isnt high enough considering how much blue light the sun emits.

The thing that helps the most with sleep is turning down the brightness of your phone to minimum for when u in the dark and trying to sleep. Or just dont use it lol.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I also get frustrated with how ubiquitous they've become. I want darkness in my house at night, I don't like LEDs winking at me from all over the place and I hate placing electrical tape over them but there are few options that aren't permanently damaging.

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

I hate this trend.

I'm quite sensitive to light, and some of these LED's are stupid.

[–] z3k3lon@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 years ago

Even the small white leds on my pc are annoying, I've recently used a black sharpie to dim them, it did wonders.

[–] j3rderer@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depending on the device I use electrical tape or the liquid electrical tape. It works quite well at blocking the light.

[–] Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wait! There's liquid electrical tape? Why am I just finding out about this now?!?!?!

[–] StupendousMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I regularly take nail polish and paint over these infernal LEDs in layers until they are at a brightness that I find acceptable. Red are not so bad, but blue LEDs area nightmare. I have a cheap Chinese headlamp were the blue battery indicator is brighter than the red led for illumination, and the blue reflects off my glasses into my eyes.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FOR REAL
I can't find a WiFi light switch without an led on the buttons that you can't disable, it's so frustrating

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Tplink Kasa WiFi AC plugs have the ability to turn the led off. I suspect the switches do too?

[–] adventurecyclist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have a pair of underpants draped over my internet router.😂😂😂 Really defuses the 🔆 🔆 brightness

[–] merlin@open-source.social 2 points 2 years ago

My router actually has 4 brightness options for the LEDs with one of them being "off". I wish more manufacturers would think about stuff like this.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just make sure you center the brown part at the back over the LED, as it masks the brightness better than the white cloth

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Nothing is more relaxing than falling asleep to the dim, brown light of your router :)

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[–] LDRMS@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don’t know if this is the right place to complain about this but since it’s LED related.. Why are all the automakers putting the brightest fucking LED’s in their new vehicles now?? They are legit brighter then how high beams used to be only a few years back!!

What did we all used to do when headlights used to be slightly yellow??

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I used to work in electronics manufacturing. I won't give my title because it was a shit title and didn't describe what I did well at all. I think that was on purpose to keep our salaries low.

I engineered final assembly test systems. Like the product fully completed. Most of these devices were commercial in nature.

My man, the testers fucking LOVED LEDs. Because LEDs not turning on correctly always means the device fails.

I hated them, because was really fucking hard to automate testing of LEDs. LEDs emit a wavelength, or combination of RGB. Because of the brilliance of my sales engineers, we used computer vision to automate this testing, NOT sensors. The reasoning? Much denser LED placements.

But guess what happens when your supply chain and manufacutirng is entirely Chinese and your product is designed and prototyped and originally manufactured here? YOU GET THE WRONG FUCKING COLOR CALIBRATED. I'm not shitting you, it was a tiny difference in Red wavelength. Tiny. but computer vision doesn't read wave length, it reads color.

LEDs make testing easy for humans. If you just need to see them light up? Everything is great. Bonus points for brighter LEDs for faster moving tests. Faster moving tests = more profit. Human testers means you don't spend money on automated testing and and can quickly repurpose humans to see if an LED is on.

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