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?
Thought I read somewhere it’s cheaper to get these super bright LEDs, so they use those rather than something easier on the eye.
LEDs are very cheap, very bright, take little energy, and have an extremely long life span. They’re perfect, but designers keep bumping up the brightness.
The newest gen Sonicare toothbrushes are so bright, they can cast a small beam of light into the sink. Coming from the old gen with a bad battery, the new ones appear to have cut costs in several places, while still keeping the same price. :/
That wouldn’t surprise me, since that basically summarizes capitalism in a nutshell. Make decisions that make the consumers experience worse but make the product cheaper to make, therefore increasing profits.
It’s more like having the LED on is cheap (you can control their brighness by reducing voltage or the more common way is to turning the LED on and off often enough Also the container and it’s thickness affect the brightness (most LEDs are white with a different top)
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