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Wildebeast's revenge
So one of our support offices had this open house today, w/ lots of displays on safety, security, ergonomics, etc.

One of the displays was on LED bulbs! 04-cheers Nice, informative pages on their low energy use, and describing the color rendering index and its superiority to fluorescents 05-nono, and the effects of intense blue light on vision.

Each display had a raffle give away.

So guess who won the LED raffle? Of course it was me. 04-rock

BUT, what was the prize? Compact fluorescent bulbs :( Yuck. Well, they are cost effective if they're free.
06-03-2009 03:19 PM
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What is the effect of the intense blue light on vision?
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(06-03-2009 04:24 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  What is the effect of the intense blue light on vision?

Prologue is a little long, but the content is good

http://texyt.com/bright+blue+leds+annoya...alth+risks
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(06-03-2009 04:26 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  
(06-03-2009 04:24 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  What is the effect of the intense blue light on vision?

Prologue is a little long, but the content is good

http://texyt.com/bright+blue+leds+annoya...alth+risks

Being in the Electronics Field I have to totally agree.

These Blue LED's are the most invasive extreme light there is and why everyone has to load every available inch of unused space on Electronics with these things is beyond my comprehension.

I SWEAR ON MY GRAND CHILDREN'S LIVES that my Freggin Toaster has BLUE LED's on it !!!!!!!!!! A BREAD TOASTER now !!!!!!!!

I have gotten to the point where I either hide the device behind something, place something in front of it to block the light, or I cover the LED's with Blue Masking Tape that is just above being Heavily Opaque. At least this way, I can see the LED's that everyone now uses as Trouble Indicators or just Indicators, but they don't blind me.

I thought this silliness was just a Fad that would go away when people got fed up with all this Super Intense Blue Light in their faces, but it seems to be only getting worse.

And used too, most devices at least gave you a "Dimmer" option for these kinds of exterior lighting, but not any more .... and it seems the Brighter they are, the Better the manufacturer likes it .... why don't they either ask us, the Consumer or give us a way to Shut them Off or Dim Them ??

They are very very intrusive and visually angering at best.

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I don't know about today but there was a time when blue LED's were the most expensive color to make and were only found on high end stuff.
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(06-03-2009 07:57 PM)Tripster Wrote:  
(06-03-2009 04:26 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  
(06-03-2009 04:24 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  What is the effect of the intense blue light on vision?

Prologue is a little long, but the content is good

http://texyt.com/bright+blue+leds+annoya...alth+risks

Being in the Electronics Field I have to totally agree.

These Blue LED's are the most invasive extreme light there is and why everyone has to load every available inch of unused space on Electronics with these things is beyond my comprehension.

I SWEAR ON MY GRAND CHILDREN'S LIVES that my Freggin Toaster has BLUE LED's on it !!!!!!!!!! A BREAD TOASTER now !!!!!!!!

I have gotten to the point where I either hide the device behind something, place something in front of it to block the light, or I cover the LED's with Blue Masking Tape that is just above being Heavily Opaque. At least this way, I can see the LED's that everyone now uses as Trouble Indicators or just Indicators, but they don't blind me.

I thought this silliness was just a Fad that would go away when people got fed up with all this Super Intense Blue Light in their faces, but it seems to be only getting worse.

And used too, most devices at least gave you a "Dimmer" option for these kinds of exterior lighting, but not any more .... and it seems the Brighter they are, the Better the manufacturer likes it .... why don't they either ask us, the Consumer or give us a way to Shut them Off or Dim Them ??

They are very very intrusive and visually angering at best.

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I gotta be honest, I had no idea this was an issue. I have two blue LED's at my house. One is on the flat screen, and one is in the Mazda. Neither bother me in any way shape of form, but maybe that is because I am used to them.

So in a professional opinion, are these good for streetlights? That is something my city council is discussing. Would I asssume the LED streetlights are not blue but some sort or white or yellow?
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(06-04-2009 08:32 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  So in a professional opinion, are these good for streetlights? That is something my city council is discussing. Would I asssume the LED streetlights are not blue but some sort or white or yellow?

A little more to the point, the white LEDs have a much higher portion of blue than the solar spectrm that we all evolved to enjoy 03-wink

That being said, this can be tweaked in production, or in the selection of LEDs used to make a device. These bugs are being worked out, but these are the simple issues. The heavy lifting has been done.

The single blue LEDs are often perceived as intense, and that's one reason why I thought it funny that a company backed away from Nakamura's* approach and took a different path to create weak blue LEDs. An important lesson on the impact of market forces on innovation.

*Nevertheless, Nakamura is still a hero of mine. And with him and 5 Nobel Laureates, UCSB is a great choice to study science...recent fires notwithstanding.
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03-lmfao Funny story.

Aren't white LED's just blue with phosphorous coating?

I just bought a new 50" Plasma (just in time for the UEFA cup and the Rice-LSU baseball super-regionals) - the new power supply has blue LED's that sit about two feet below the screen. I'm gradually migrating equipment over there and on my todo list is to obscure those lights.

Interesting new display technologies involve "quantum dots" that are supposed to make LED screens more efficient and also can produce white light for solid state use.
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(06-04-2009 11:57 AM)I45owl Wrote:  03-lmfao Funny story.

Aren't white LED's just blue with phosphorous coating?

I just bought a new 50" Plasma (just in time for the UEFA cup and the Rice-LSU baseball super-regionals) - the new power supply has blue LED's that sit about two feet below the screen. I'm gradually migrating equipment over there and on my todo list is to obscure those lights.

Interesting new display technologies involve "quantum dots" that are supposed to make LED screens more efficient and also can produce white light for solid state use.

Quantum dots.

Let me tell you another funny story.

Back in 2003 I was doing a project for cleaning of sensitive surfaces (electronics, displays, etc). And one issue that kept coming up is how do you tell they are clean? So an investor in the process we were using (a retired NIH researcher) comes up w/ this idea using quantum dots. Very good idea IMO, so we worked together and submitted a patent.

Anyway, I was active w/ my photocatalyst interests at that time. One other application for those (different from my main interests) was dye-sensitized solar cells. I never liked dyes (organic chemistry, yecch) but with the other work on my mind, I began to speculate of using quantum dots in the same way as the dyes. Their size and high quantum efficiency should allow them to make better cells than the the dye-sensitized ones.

Yes, others have had that idea, and have made progress.

Fast forward to 2008. I work for a well known consulting company that is trying to leverage their S&T manpower to win new business. One opportunity is to pitch new ideas to GM. (Yes, that GM). So, I suggest that they consider quantum dot-sensitized solar cells on vehicles...as the paint. No obtrusive silicon panels, lots of surface area, easier integration into production lines.
Feedback I get from my co-worker is that they raised eyebrows at that one. They liked it.

The punchline?
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.a...arresearch
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(06-04-2009 12:27 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  
(06-04-2009 11:57 AM)I45owl Wrote:  03-lmfao Funny story.

Aren't white LED's just blue with phosphorous coating?

I just bought a new 50" Plasma (just in time for the UEFA cup and the Rice-LSU baseball super-regionals) - the new power supply has blue LED's that sit about two feet below the screen. I'm gradually migrating equipment over there and on my todo list is to obscure those lights.

Interesting new display technologies involve "quantum dots" that are supposed to make LED screens more efficient and also can produce white light for solid state use.

Quantum dots.

Let me tell you another funny story.

Back in 2003 I was doing a project for cleaning of sensitive surfaces (electronics, displays, etc). And one issue that kept coming up is how do you tell they are clean? So an investor in the process we were using (a retired NIH researcher) comes up w/ this idea using quantum dots. Very good idea IMO, so we worked together and submitted a patent.

Anyway, I was active w/ my photocatalyst interests at that time. One other application for those (different from my main interests) was dye-sensitized solar cells. I never liked dyes (organic chemistry, yecch) but with the other work on my mind, I began to speculate of using quantum dots in the same way as the dyes. Their size and high quantum efficiency should allow them to make better cells than the the dye-sensitized ones.

Yes, others have had that idea, and have made progress.

Fast forward to 2008. I work for a well known consulting company that is trying to leverage their S&T manpower to win new business. One opportunity is to pitch new ideas to GM. (Yes, that GM). So, I suggest that they consider quantum dot-sensitized solar cells on vehicles...as the paint. No obtrusive silicon panels, lots of surface area, easier integration into production lines.
Feedback I get from my co-worker is that they raised eyebrows at that one. They liked it.

The punchline?
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.a...arresearch
Wow. You are truely amazing. You should just write a book an how great and important your life is. 03-lmfao
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(06-04-2009 12:27 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Fast forward to 2008. I work for a well known consulting company that is trying to leverage their S&T manpower to win new business. One opportunity is to pitch new ideas to GM. (Yes, that GM). So, I suggest that they consider quantum dot-sensitized solar cells on vehicles...as the paint. No obtrusive silicon panels, lots of surface area, easier integration into production lines.
Feedback I get from my co-worker is that they raised eyebrows at that one. They liked it.

The punchline?
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.a...arresearch

so the new American "People's Car" may be Solar powered?
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(06-04-2009 12:56 PM)GGniner Wrote:  
(06-04-2009 12:27 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Fast forward to 2008. I work for a well known consulting company that is trying to leverage their S&T manpower to win new business. One opportunity is to pitch new ideas to GM. (Yes, that GM). So, I suggest that they consider quantum dot-sensitized solar cells on vehicles...as the paint. No obtrusive silicon panels, lots of surface area, easier integration into production lines.
Feedback I get from my co-worker is that they raised eyebrows at that one. They liked it.

The punchline?
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.a...arresearch

so the new American "People's Car" may be Solar powered?

Until Mr. Fusion comes along...
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when will that be?
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(06-04-2009 12:48 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(06-04-2009 12:27 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  
(06-04-2009 11:57 AM)I45owl Wrote:  03-lmfao Funny story.

Aren't white LED's just blue with phosphorous coating?

I just bought a new 50" Plasma (just in time for the UEFA cup and the Rice-LSU baseball super-regionals) - the new power supply has blue LED's that sit about two feet below the screen. I'm gradually migrating equipment over there and on my todo list is to obscure those lights.

Interesting new display technologies involve "quantum dots" that are supposed to make LED screens more efficient and also can produce white light for solid state use.

Quantum dots.

Let me tell you another funny story.

Back in 2003 I was doing a project for cleaning of sensitive surfaces (electronics, displays, etc). And one issue that kept coming up is how do you tell they are clean? So an investor in the process we were using (a retired NIH researcher) comes up w/ this idea using quantum dots. Very good idea IMO, so we worked together and submitted a patent.

Anyway, I was active w/ my photocatalyst interests at that time. One other application for those (different from my main interests) was dye-sensitized solar cells. I never liked dyes (organic chemistry, yecch) but with the other work on my mind, I began to speculate of using quantum dots in the same way as the dyes. Their size and high quantum efficiency should allow them to make better cells than the the dye-sensitized ones.

Yes, others have had that idea, and have made progress.

Fast forward to 2008. I work for a well known consulting company that is trying to leverage their S&T manpower to win new business. One opportunity is to pitch new ideas to GM. (Yes, that GM). So, I suggest that they consider quantum dot-sensitized solar cells on vehicles...as the paint. No obtrusive silicon panels, lots of surface area, easier integration into production lines.
Feedback I get from my co-worker is that they raised eyebrows at that one. They liked it.

The punchline?
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.a...arresearch
Wow. You are truely amazing. You should just write a book an how great and important your life is. 03-lmfao

Don't worry Robert, when you finally push the detonator on your vest, you will be remembered as well. Just not for the same reasons.
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(06-04-2009 12:48 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Wow. You are truely amazing. You should just write a book an how great and important your life is. 03-lmfao

Don't worry Robs, I am sure your Messiah Obamagog Almighty, will toss you all the money you need to write your own best seller that you could VERY APPROPRIATELY title:

"How to be a Couch Potato, Oxygen Thieving, Welfare Living Dink".

After all, he is paying Ms. Peggy's Car Note, Car Gas, House Mortgage and all sorts of stuff, you should get some of that kind of candy too.

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(06-04-2009 01:02 PM)GGniner Wrote:  when will that be?
As soon as Dr. Brown invents the DeLorean with a flux capacitor power system to regulate his time machine...
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(06-04-2009 03:50 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  
(06-04-2009 01:02 PM)GGniner Wrote:  when will that be?
As soon as Dr. Brown invents the DeLorean with a flux capacitor power system to regulate his time machine...

Is that Huey Lewis music I hear in the background?
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