Any Model - Little Blue Light - sirionman

I find the headlight beam dashbord blue light too bright. Is it just me?

On the odd occasion when main beam can be used I find the main beam repeater lamp on the dash irritatingly bright. This is especially so when it is completely dark driving a lonely country road at night. I understand that my eye pupils are wide open to receive the maximum amount of light (coz it's dark) and subsequently that little blue light seems piercingly bright to me.

I just wondered if anyone else felt the same way.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - Bromptonaut

I find the headlight beam dashbord blue light too bright. Is it just me?

On the odd occasion when main beam can be used I find the main beam repeater lamp on the dash irritatingly bright. This is especially so when it is completely dark driving a lonely country road at night. I understand that my eye pupils are wide open to receive the maximum amount of light (coz it's dark) and subsequently that little blue light seems piercingly bright to me.

I just wondered if anyone else felt the same way.

Never given it a thought.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - RT

The whole point of a warning light is to be noticed - I certainly don't regard mine as an issue because my vision is focussed way down the road, not a few cm in front of me.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - unthrottled

Sorry Sirion, I can't say I find it an issue either. Although, I dare say once you're aware of it, it ca be hard to ignore it!

Just take the LED out...

Any Model - Little Blue Light - Bobbin Threadbare

You can get stickers to go over it - like a sort of smoky film.

The 'full beam on' whatsit in my car is orange so I don't notice it - recent research has shown that there are certain photoreceptors in our eyes which strongly respond to blue light; tests on humans have shown that, when sat in an environment with blue lights, the area is perceived as being 'brighter' than other colours.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - unthrottled

Blue lights do seem to be a very piercing.

Why are our eyes so sensitive to blue light? Most animals are most sensitive to the green area of the spectrum to provide the best visibility in vegetation.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - Bobbin Threadbare

Ahhh, that may be slightly misleading; we need all of the wavelengths and a lot of animals see into the IR range. We have several kinds of photoreceptor pigment on our retinas - there's one called rhodopsin which helps us see in the dark and one called melanopsin which is specifically sensitive to short wavelength light (blue will be 410-500nm ish).

Get scoffing the riboflavin!

Edited by Bobbin Threadbare on 23/12/2011 at 12:15

Any Model - Little Blue Light - unthrottled

Is that the plush name for 'rods' and 'cones'? I gave up studying food chains (sorry-Biology) as soon as I could.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - Bobbin Threadbare

It is

Any Model - Little Blue Light - Dwight Van Driver

Cut a small circle out of dark cellophane (sweet paper), dab of Pritstick and cover offending light. It will still be there as a warning but less bright.

Simples...

dvd

Any Model - Little Blue Light - ianhad2

I agree, I've had to put some tape over it on one car.

Any Model - Little Blue Light - Sofa Spud

The blue mainbeam light on my two cars are bright too, but I've come to welcome it as a reminder, since although both cars are the same make, they have different dipswitches - one is single-action (pull switch towards and let go for changing beam either way), the other is two-position - main and dip. So it's not totally impossible for even a very attentive and careful driver such as my good self to get dipping wrong without a reminder!!