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 feel you man. My mom lived in a house that was build in 2010 and had touch-futuristic-smart-glow-in-the-dark light switches… They had a bright blue LED in the middle, it drove me crazy. The switches were also packed in groups of two or three.
I genuinely don’t understand it in light switches.
The only ones in my house that have them are the bathroom fan controllers, and I have the fancy ones that run the fan for a set amount of time, and the face of the switch uses the LEDs to show you how long it has left to run. And the LEDs on those are VERY dim, with all the lights off they don’t light up the whole room.
But who needs them on, like, a ceiling fan controller?? You can see which setting your on, it’s a fan. And on light switches it’s just insulting.