Haunted By LED Light

amdx · 2011-10-02T16:41:30+00:00

I'm haunted by LED light!When I wake up there's the LED on the cordless phone charger and the LED display on my alarm clock, also two LEDs on the VCR.I walk in the bathroom there are 3 LEDs on the toothbrush, I walk down the hall and there is a second toothbrush with it's 3 LEDs, then I hit the dining room, where my modem has 5 LEDs and the routerhas another 6 LEDs plus the Xbox PS has one LED. There is an LED on the Xbox controller battery charger.There is an LED on the keyboard and one LED on each computer and one LED on each monitor, also one LED on the computer speaker system. Then I hit the kitchen and there is the LED clock display on the sove, the coffee maker LED display and then there is the one I dislike most of all;The BLUE LED on the dishwasher, that thing could put an eye out at 6 am in the morning. End of rant, Mikek

Oct 02, 2011 31 Replies

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Sylvia Else 14 years ago

You wait. Some regulator somewhere will decide that appliances are much too dangerous if their power-on lights don't work, and will mandate circuitry (no doubt unreachable inside an IC) to detect a failed power LED which will prevent the appliance from operating. You'll have to build something that accurately emulates the voltage/current behaviour of the LED to put in its place.

Sylvia.

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Jan Panteltje 14 years ago

On a sunny day (Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:11:46 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else wrote in :

When I was searching ebay for LCD displays, I found one that had specified a 'black backlight'. Maybe they have the right thing:-)

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petrus bitbyter 14 years ago

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It's going worse, much worse :-( The days incandescents are banned if favor of CFLs. Tomorrow only LED lighting will be allowed. Even the sun would become illegal if only they knew how to turn it off :)

petrus bitbyter

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Spehro Pefhany 14 years ago

An unshielded, unregulated fusion reactor that emits 6.7 billion tons of effluent PER HOUR! Shut it down!

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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krw 14 years ago

Sure, it's a Dark Emitting Axial Diode.

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Jan Panteltje 14 years ago

On a sunny day (Sat, 8 Oct 2011 14:51:25 +0200) it happened "petrus bitbyter" wrote in : It's going worse, much worse :-( The days incandescents are banned if favor

They do not need to turn it off, they will just tax the use of it :-)

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John Larkin 14 years ago

What really annoys me is microwave ovens that go

BBBBEEEPPPP BBBBEEEPPPP BBBBEEEPPPP BBBBEEEPPPP BBBBEEEPPPP

when the thing shuts off. I don't need an alarm to tell me when it shuts off; I can hear that already.

John

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Michael A. Terrell 14 years ago

Good for you but some people are too busy to standing in front of it and staring at it while drooling and yelling, "Why can't they make faster Microwaves!!!" to hear the fan. They may be in another room, doing something else that needs imediate attention.

You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

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Rich Grise 14 years ago

Yeah, boy, that would sure solve the "global warming" problem! By the way, they've been promising warming for over a decade now. What's gone wrong?

Thanks, Rich

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Rich Grise 14 years ago

That's for people who stick their burrito in it and go back to the TV.

Just stand there, and when it's done, quickly hit "cancel."

Or, you could simply hack the beeper.

Good Luck! Rich

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John Larkin 14 years ago

TV? People still watch TV?

That doesn't work on mine. One of ours has an option to turn off the beeper. But every power glitch, it defaults to beeping again. And the menu sequence to turn it off again is horrible.

It's a Chinese plot to drive us crazy.

Yeah, I tend to do that.

John

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