SOME LEDS ARE TOO BRIGHT JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DOESNT MEAN YOU SHOULD

[M A V I C]

Agreed.

[Sarcany]

S. Pupp wrote:
I use these: Lightdims Original Strenth

They make the LED’s tolerable.

I have those. They work very well.

[sekker]

Sarcany wrote:
[quote=S. Pupp]
I use these: Lightdims Original Strenth

They make the LED’s tolerable.

I have those. They work very well.
Very clever.

I might or might not be known to tape a metal button in front of LEDs for this very reason. That means we no longer see the LEDs, but the colorful button made up for it a bit - and far nicer to look at than gaffer tape etc.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

S. Pupp wrote:
I use these: Lightdims Original Strenth

They make the LED’s tolerable.

Came to post this exact info. I've found these to be super effective.

[jonny]

Black Sharpie.

[Rolando]

Bill in NC wrote:
One of the backup lights on the truck burned out...so I went on Amazon and bought a pair of LED replacements..,bright enough that they're also sold as daytime running lights (DRLs)

Link?!

[rz]

My alarm clock was stupidly bright. It has three light settings. The first two were too bright, and the third setting was unreadable. No in-between. So I had a car window tinting sheet that I had trimmed and there was just enough to cover the face of the clock. Now, the brightest setting is still too bright, but the middle setting with the window tinting over it is just right.

[RAMd®d]

its a status indicator


Which is why they shouldn't be taped over.

I posted about LightDims many years ago, and have used them ever since.

I've got maybe 177 LEDs in the living room and a bunch in the bedroom, and LightDims work really well.

Well, except on raised LEDs.

Even the large dots eventually fall off, in that case.

In some cases, I doubled up on the Dims.

I wish there were a full sheet of rectangular shapes as well.

It's good to see that AMZ has them, as B&H charged too much for shipping.

[MrNoBody]

I use blue painters tape, sometimes double-layer. Works fine & doesn't mar anything.
ymmv

[mspace]

S. Pupp wrote:
I use these: Lightdims Original Strenth

They make the LED’s tolerable.

I think the trend towards overly bright LED’s began when the blue ones came out. I remember that my Canopus firewire device 20 years ago was too bright even to use as a night light.

This.