Simple Night Light Mod

We ended up with using the flicker LED lights that simulate candles for night lights. They come in all different sizes and run a long time on batteries.

Most come with automatic turn on at night.






Very cozy looking
Roy Ken

red and yellow actually throw off your night vision... your eyes try to engage the color receptors or something like that.

blue on the other hand does not

downside to blue, it can interfere with your circadian rhythm

I turn the lights off at night

K Charles wrote:
I turn the lights off at night

I'm scared of the dark just like my kids :)

In our case there's only tw of us, so I installed an LED licence plate light under the edge of the bed. It doesn't shine in anyone's eyes but just shines a nice glow along the floor.

Worked in photography all my life and spend most of my time in a dark room where they use a red light for developing film.

I haven't gone blind yet!

And when I bought my first car that had red lights on the dash instead of white? It made driving at night SO much easier. No glaring white lights in your face that made your pupils close and thereby making night driving more difficult. Such a simple fix making all the lights within the dash red.


OP. Great idea. Red light while sleeping vs a white one is proven to be better for you.

We use battery operated LED motion-sensing night lights mounted on the wall near the floor in various locations. When we swing our legs out of bed a light will go on. As we move through the 5fr other lights keep the path lit. Works well for us. We use white light and the people sleeping are not bothered by the light.

BTW-The blackout lights on our military vehicles (the cat eyes or whatever you care to call them) were all red and that did preserve our night vision while driving. Of course that was back in days of old. Now they probably just use night goggles.

GordonThree wrote:
red and yellow actually throw off your night vision... your eyes try to engage the color receptors or something like that.

blue on the other hand does not

downside to blue, it can interfere with your circadian rhythm

Really?
All those years I spent in a darkroom and with my telescope.

I had read it in a technical paper some time ago, can't find the link at the moment. This website captures the just of it:

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_purpose_of_blue_lights_used_in_a_submarine

pconroy328 wrote:

GordonThree wrote:
red and yellow actually throw off your night vision... your eyes try to engage the color receptors or something like that.

blue on the other hand does not

downside to blue, it can interfere with your circadian rhythm

Really?
All those years I spent in a darkroom and with my telescope.

Also my 20 years in the military and all the aviators would take exception to the red is bad.

Larry