A few thicknesses of coloured cellophane is a nice cheap way of doing it and you can have a Blue Peter experience with the left-overs.
How to dim LEDs on electronics?
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A few thicknesses of coloured cellophane is a nice cheap way of doing it and you can have a Blue Peter experience with the left-overs.
Black electrical tape. Works a treat (as does buying devices that don't have stupid bright blue LEDs on)
yea blue led's are ridiculous my logitech speakes on the centre speaker that obviously goes directly infront of you has the brightest blue LED , it actually hurt my eyes it was so bright god knows what they were thinking.....
I put white electrical tape over the LED you can still see the colour but its a lot less bright
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Black CD-writer pen and colour the LEDs in
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If it bothers you that much and you only want to tint it out a bit, just go to a car window tinting firm and ask for a small piece of cut-off waste, offer them a quid for it at most.
CBS to goggle the code, I thought this was a PC with a front mounting led.
They work well, what more do you want?
I found every other solution here not to work for me. I found blutack looked a bit silly and electrical tape didn't allow me to still see the state of the LED - never tried nail polish admittedly, not something I had to hand at the time.
Got them off ebay for £1.99 posted a couple of years ago and I've still got plenty left.
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turn it off, face the other way, cover with sheet, do you need internet access at night?
Still made by Netgear with crappy 1x1 antennas?
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Got a VM Superhub
Never thought of putting tape over them
That's the only electrical thing I own with a stupidly bright LED. However it's a **** wireless router so I've but it in 'modem mode' and hid it in a cupboard. The only time I see the lights are when I (occasionally) reboot the damn thing.
I doubt the v2 is any better a router so if (when?) I get one it will stay in modem mode.
With the Merlin FW for that router (and I think 1-2 other custom firmwares) there is the option:
Tools->Other Settings->Stealth Mode (disable all LEDs) On/Off
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Looking at the thread it's another stand up only router? Why do Virgin insist on that - I want a router to be as flat and inconspicuous as possible, not have something huge like a book end.
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This is actually an interesting solution.
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This.
Tomato firmware also does this and there is a script floating about that will turn them on at a certain time of day and turn them off again at night.
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Meh, slightly better wifi. I'll stick with modem mode.
you do realise that the LED's will most likely be a DC component and placed after the AC input voltage has been rectified,smoothed and regulated. So all the above would do is most likely make the whole thing not work unless it has a massive voltage input tolerance like 110 to 240 volts.
If he wanted to adjust the LED's hed have to insert a resistor in series with the led or a resistance changing pot to adjust the current.
Or he could use electrical tape to block the light