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?
I bought an LG TV for my bedroom. Its WHITE LED is FUCKING BLINKING WHEN OFF. I taped it with black tape, but then it’s so bright that’s leaking from the button spacing. I had to buy a smart relay like a shelly pm and write a simple program like “after 11pm if power usage is under 2W, cut the power to the appliance”
Check your tv settings, most of mine have an option to turn off the led.
it doesn’t allow to turn off the LED (my other samsung instead has a setting “led on when it’s on, led off when it’s off”, but by default it was the opposite, “led off when on, led on when off”)
it has an ECO mode that I can enable. It’s so funny, when you turn off the TV, then it shows a grey rectangle at max brightness “ECO MODE ACTIVATED”
Sometimes there’s a hidden menu. It’s usually called hotel mode and/or service mode. It’s usually easily findable on Google. That mode is also great to e.g. limit the max volume. There could be multiple modes btw. Maybe the LED setting is part of those modes?
I have the same thing with one of my monitors. Thankfully the acrylic paint I used is enough to hide that nonsense.