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05-09-2008, 11:47
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Screaming Orgasm
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Newbury
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LEDs
My house seems to be getting a little like the Blackpool illuminations. I'm sure it can be seen 'glowing' from down the road at night. :/
Does anyone have any suggestions for any techniques I can use to tone down things a little without opening up boxes and snipping out the LEDs? |
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05-09-2008, 12:08
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ex SAS
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: JO01ou
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Black electrical tape.
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05-09-2008, 12:37
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Rocket Fuel
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Bituminous paint on the insides of the windows?
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05-09-2008, 13:40
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BBx woz 'ere :P
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Add a resistor to the circuit... other than that get a lower powered LED. Or get a black marker and mark up the LED it should dim it quite nicely.
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05-09-2008, 13:52
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Screaming Orgasm
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Black marker sounds reasonable. I don't want to obliterate the LEDs completely, and in several cases I don't have the option to open the box to cut/modify/replace the LEDs. I also don't want to leave a mess.
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05-09-2008, 14:30
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Bananaman
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh
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Black marker works awesome and doesn't look nasty in the day, for more coverage tip ex is great too but obviously is more visible in the day... I don't know why manufactures feel the need to use HUGE ass blue LED's in everything these days... At least have some dimming function or something...?
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05-09-2008, 14:36
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Screaming Orgasm
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Location: Newbury
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Any particular type of marker I should be looking for? I know nothing.
It's not just the blue ones either. To help control stuff that makes me sneeze I have several ionisers, and they all project a green glow. Fine, until you want to go to sleep. :/ |
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05-09-2008, 14:58
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Absinthe
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Devonshire
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I just use a CD writing pen tbh
the nib is small enough to just paint onto the LED face |
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05-09-2008, 15:00
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Screaming Orgasm
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Got some of those. Cool. Thanks.
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05-09-2008, 17:24
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Bananaman
Join Date: Jul 2006
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yeah anything permanent and dark
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