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?
At leat that has a real function. It’s annoying, but it’s a planned annoyance, and sometimes it really is useful so it’s tolerable.
But so many of these LEDs indicate nothing except “this has power,” which is readily apparent 99% of the time because it’s plugged in and the house has power.
My favorite implementation of this is on a GPU power plug for a PC. The PSU will supply the power the GPU needs, but it has about 75w of “dirty” power from being plugged in to the motherboard, which it is plugged into for data. One company has LEDs only come on when the GPU power plug isn’t plugged in. This way, if it comes uncoupled ever so slightly during a move, the warning LEDs by the plug come on. But otherwise they are off. Easy to diagnose, and when the LEDs turn off, you know it’s plugged in.