In the last few years I have purchased a pressure cooker and an air fryer. They both waste electricity by having an off light. Furthermore they act like red nightlights and my kitchen has an eerie red glow at night. What is the actual purpose for off lights besides to waste electricity?
Just unplug them? Most appliances still draw some electricity (i.e. phantom load) when turned off.
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Because there’s no reason not to. The power consumption is negligible, literally.
The ultra tiny amount of electricity is… Well you probably would never notice it on your bill.
But yeah it can be annoying having it there. I guess the purpose is to tell you that it has power available if you need it
Yes those small LED indicator lights use around 10-20mA of current at like 3V which is only 0.06W of power.
get a Samsung appliance – they like to use ultra-bright BLINKING blue LEDs for sleep mode
I have a monitor that does that (but in white). It’s in my bedroom. I had to use electrical tape like another commenter here mentioned - I left a tiny hole in the tape so I can see a faint light up close, but it’s not making the room blink at night now.
I’m never buying another Samsung monitor.
I can literally hear it blinking on and off at night, so I need to manually turn it off.
Damn my perfect hearing.
For soundbars at least, the off light is there because there shouldn’t be any lights on while it’s being used so as not to distract the person watching tv. So the only way to know if the device is off is to have a light on.
My soundbar has a tiny blue light in the bottom corner that’s on when the power is on and off when it’s off. I’ve never been distracted by the tiny little blue LED while watching TV.
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I cover lights like this with black electrical tape so they don’t sear my eyes at night.
Just to see the blue light creep out elsewhere in the cheap plastic box…
It should be fucking illegal to have lights on when the whatever if off.
Especially BLUE lights can go right to hell.
You need to get worse eyes. I don’t have this problem at all.
Just to see the blue light creep out elsewhere in the cheap plastic box…
It should be fucking illegal to have lights on when the whatever if off.
I figured the purpose was to warn us that these devices have been left plugged in while not in use, which is not advisable because they can become a fire hazard.
I visited my parents last weekend. They have s printer which has a wave light signal in standby - gradually switching from off to strong light and back. What my parents probably never noticed was the high pitch loud screech which followed the light. I guess the pitch was too high for my parents to hear, but not for me. So whoever designed that can go fuck themselves.
Because corporations benefit from keeping the working class from getting good sleep.
Knew it was corporations conspiring to keep us from a good night’s sleep
