[ale] OT: Light Management
Robert L. Harris
robert.l.harris at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 12:44:16 EDT 2012
For me it's a matter of too much light, especially right above me and
behind my monitors. It washes out my screen so reading becomes
troublesome. I also just prefer it a little darker than most but I have
odd vision anyway.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 11:58 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > I must be weird. For me the more light the better. Every time I see
> admins/operators sitting in rooms that are dark with the only light being
> from their monitors I am flabbergasted that they don't go batty. The one
> time I worked in an office that was previously dark I asked the first day
> if anyone minded me turning on the room lights and from that day on they
> were on whenever I was there.
> >
> > It was interesting to me some years ago to find out there's actually
> something called Seasonally Affected Disorder (SAD) that impacts some folks
> even more - shorter daylight makes people that function well in the summer
> begin to exhibit all sorts of issues (poor performance, irritability
> etc...) in the winter until they are diagnosed. The treatment is to sit
> in front of a bank of very bright lights for some period of time. I'm not
> quite that bad but I did find after seeing that story that having my
> cubicle lights on during the day in addition to room lights did seem to
> make the winter months seem less grey to me.
> Lighting affects people differently. Fluorescent lights can induce
> migraines in some, especially when the bulb is going bad. Also, the
> color temperature of fluorescents gives yellowish-green light that some
> find very irritating unlike incandescent bulbs which better mimic
> sunlight. I do not know what the color temperature of a computer monitor
> is.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Pete Hardie
> > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 11:36 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Light Management
> >
> > Looks like just the thing!
> >
> >
> > Pete Hardie
> > --------
> > Better Living Through Bitmaps
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Robert L. Harris <
> robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Something like this:
> >>
> >> http://www.555-timer-circuits.com/led-dimmer.html
> >>
> >> ? If I'm reading it right I could find what brightness to put the LED
> >> at and put it near the sensor.
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Get a 555, and a few LEDs, and search for a simple circuit. The 555
> >>> will let you run the LEDs at partial power, so longer battery life.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Pete Hardie
> >>> --------
> >>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Robert L. Harris
> >>> <robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> So, I'm now in a new office building. The internal florescent
> >>>> lights are pretty bloody bright. It seems though that there is a
> >>>> sensor in them that if the sun is out and bright, they dim. I'm
> >>>> thinking I need some small devices I can make from RadioShack I can
> >>>> throw up in them to force them to Dim. The closest thing I can
> >>>> find online is the anoyatron which isn't quite what I have in mind,
> >>>> I want these to just dim the lights around me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any thoughts or anyone who can tell me how to put together
> >>>> something that'll run off a 9v battery for quite some time?
> >>>>
> >>>> Robert
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
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> >> Robert L. Harris
> >>
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ALONE. I speak for First One Should Be A Man
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