[Shop-talk] LED heat output

[Jim Stone]

Interesting.  We have a blue LED clock radio too and my wife hates it.  It
doesn't bother me, but I will switch to red if I end up having to redo the
bathroom light.  In the meantime, I will follow the advice here and check the
tape in a few days.  I did feel the outer lens and it is totally cool to the
touch, but I suppose that doesn't mean much.

As always, thanks for the advice and recommendations.

> From: kvacek at ameritech.net
> To: jandkstone99 at msn.com; shop-talk at autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Shop-talk] LED heat output
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 17:11:12 -0500
>
> One other thing - red light is generally much more tolerable for those with
> trouble sleeping than blue light.  We had blue clock radios for years and
> the light from those damn things just drilled through my eyelids.  Took a
> long time to figure out why I couldn't sleep.  We switched to red-lighted
> ones, and eventually added a large reddish salt lamp that casts a soft glow
> over the entire bedroom, and the light doesn't bother me at all.  Jill had
> no issues either way, but says she also sees the red light far less than
the
> blue light.
> Karl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Stone
> Subject: [Shop-talk] LED heat output
>
> <snip> because of the way the bathroom is designed my wife found anything
> plugged into an existing outlet to be to distracting when she was trying to
> sleep.
> So, I did a little electrical surgery on the fan light switches right by
the
> toilet.  I replaced the two existing switches with one double switch, then
> put a hard-wired hallway light into the empty space.  Here is the one I
> used:
>
http://www.techmall.com/Pass-Seymour-Decorator-Full-Hallway-Light-TMHWL-p/51
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