Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
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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What drives me nuts is all of the light fixtures that have Integrated LED bulbs in them.
They make regular LED bulbs to put into fixtures, there's no reason for the stupid integrated LEDs. LED bulbs give you the option of choosing brightness and tone.
And sure, integrated bulbs may be rated to last 20 years, but the circuitry and drivers controlling those bulbs are not. You'll be lucky to get 5 years out of it, and then you have to toss the whole thing away and buy a new one and install it again.
This just happened to me. I had an "integrated" LED light in my laundry room that died after 4 years. I was flabbergasted that I had to buy a whole fixture.
Happened to me - two “integrated” LED fixtures (from different manufacturers) failed within 5-7 years from purchase. Instead of just switching a bulb, I had to replace the whole thing. Never again.
Don't even get me started on color temperature and lumens ratings on integrated LED fixtures. Nothing brings the rage out of me more than when I installed 6 new "led can lights" with an integrated LED. The color temperatures ranged from like 2300K to 3500K and lumens were all over the place too. Despite all of them being rated at 2700K and 600 lumens. Returned them all and had to buy a significantly more expensive set to make sure they were all color accurate.