In the last few years I have purchased a pressure cooker and an air fryer. They both waste electricity by having an off light. Furthermore they act like red nightlights and my kitchen has an eerie red glow at night. What is the actual purpose for off lights besides to waste electricity?

  • lovely_reader@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    I figured the purpose was to warn us that these devices have been left plugged in while not in use, which is not advisable because they can become a fire hazard.

  • edric@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 months ago

    For soundbars at least, the off light is there because there shouldn’t be any lights on while it’s being used so as not to distract the person watching tv. So the only way to know if the device is off is to have a light on.

    • Hupf@feddit.de
      3·
      11 months ago

      Maybe just have it exclaim “I’m off!” every five minutes, no need for an extra LED then.

      • octoperson@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        11 months ago

        You joke, but one time I got woken up by what sounded like a Chinese lady complaining about batteries, and it turned out to be the low power alert on the cheapo import soundbar.

    • Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      My soundbar has a tiny blue light in the bottom corner that’s on when the power is on and off when it’s off. I’ve never been distracted by the tiny little blue LED while watching TV.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    2·
    11 months ago

    get a Samsung appliance – they like to use ultra-bright BLINKING blue LEDs for sleep mode

    • Zozano@aussie.zone
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’m never buying another Samsung monitor.

      I can literally hear it blinking on and off at night, so I need to manually turn it off.

      Damn my perfect hearing.

  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
    31·
    11 months ago

    I visited my parents last weekend. They have s printer which has a wave light signal in standby - gradually switching from off to strong light and back. What my parents probably never noticed was the high pitch loud screech which followed the light. I guess the pitch was too high for my parents to hear, but not for me. So whoever designed that can go fuck themselves.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      2·
      11 months ago

      Just to see the blue light creep out elsewhere in the cheap plastic box…

      It should be fucking illegal to have lights on when the whatever if off.