The backlash against blue LED's is pretty wide-spread. They're slick
looking and scream "modern", since they've only been available for a few
years, so manufacturers put them in everything these days. Keep them dim,
and they're not too painful to look at - my Virus Indigo has never bothered
me, and it has over 50 of them. Of course, they're diffuse and relatively
dim.
Here is a good summary of the very real reasons that people find blue LED's
irritating:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000337.html
-gerald
looking and scream "modern", since they've only been available for a few
years, so manufacturers put them in everything these days. Keep them dim,
and they're not too painful to look at - my Virus Indigo has never bothered
me, and it has over 50 of them. Of course, they're diffuse and relatively
dim.
Here is a good summary of the very real reasons that people find blue LED's
irritating:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000337.html
-gerald
On 2/26/06, Dave Kendall <davekendall@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies guys.
>
> Seems pretty clear what the consensus is......
>
> Would it be a solution to *seriously* limit the voltage to them, making
> them
> much dimmer?
> Might that also have the benefit of drawing less current?
>
> cheers,
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> Dave
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