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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I’m confused a bit by this honestly. Power strips are easy to hide where they are not visible. In their case, an LED is actually preferable to know the state of the power strip and I have several power strips that don’t have any LEDs. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a power strip with a blue LED. None of my charging adapters have LEDs and it’s extremely rare for me to find one that does. The default iPhone/Android chargers don’t have LED and you can adapt them to work with like 90% of electronics these days because everything just uses USB. If you don’t want an digital clock, then don’t buy a digital clock? I also searched for a floor fan and 95% of the results appear to have no LEDs.
If LEDs are such a problem, I’d recommend not buying things with LEDs in them? It seems like it’s actually difficult to run into the problem you’re experiencing.
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Electrical tape is the real hack. I used to use painters tape until I saw a comment on reddit about it. Electrical tape 100% blocks all of the light with just one or two layers. It rocks.
I was actually complaining about the exact same thing yesterday! I had to use a putty-like adhesive to cover a lot of those bright af LEDs. It’s indeed infuriating.
They don’t belong on car headlights either. Because, every time, they’re going to be abused by drivers at night. They’re even unhelpful to see road signs, too. Because when the light is focused on them, I noticed I have such a hard time reading the white text on the reflective green background. It’s obnoxious and such an eyesore.
Yah agree with your rant but black electric tape was my solution too.
I use black gaffer tape for those things
I don’t know where you live but I’m very afraid that start happening here in Brazil too. It’s showing a lot of this already and it’s very annoying. Thanks for the tip about the tape, I don’t know that and will look for it.
I think they massively improve this Pergola:
I do open those pesky devices and cut the LEDs out
Alec Watson enters the chat
This kind of low effort comment should have stayed on Reddit.
I guess people here is not familiar with Technology Connections and Alec’s despise of blue LEDs.
A better comment would have been like “this reminds me of Technology Connections’ Alec Watson, he talks a lot about how much he hates blue LEDs. Here’s a video [link]”
It makes the same reference, but provides more context, more content, and a new point of discussion.
not everyone needs to be spoon fed, comments like the one i made start conversations, like it just did
It’s so “Big Brother” can still watch you…?! 😅
Bluetack is your friend. The constant red light on our baby monitor was too distracting in the pitch blackness of the night that it kept my kids awake. A small amount of Bluetack and this problem is solved. Not asthectically pleasing but a good option.
Yeppers. I’ve got tape in numerous places around my apartment. I even have some tissue boxes placed just proper.
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.
Yep, its part of why this drives me crazy. I notice a big difference in my sleep when I’m in, say, a hotel that has any of these LEDs in it.
I haven’t read someone answering why now is so common. I’m not a product designer or something similar, but our brain evolved to process the visual inputs over other senses. If a product have integrated lights, most of the customers will prefer them instead of products without lights.
So basically is just a sale point, and as many here already told, many of them are unnecessary.
Oh my gosh, yes, this drives me absolutely insane. Appliances should either turn their LEDs off after a few seconds, or not use them at all.
