What is your preferred power indicator colour?

[bluefuzz]

Tell us your favourite power ON, OFF and standby colour.

To be honest I don't really care about the colour as long as the light is not too big or bright. Anything over a millimetre is too big. But if I had to choose, then for TVs or other devices with screens I would go with blue for standby and nothing for on (because the screen is lit up anyway). For hifi audio then blue for standby and white for on. Off is obviously off for everything.

The only place for big bright power lamps is on pro audio gear, guitar amps and the like where it is fine with big bright lights in red and orange.

There's a place on the interwebs that sells little precut sticky 'sunglasses' in various sizes and shapes for sticking on overly bright LEDs. I've used them for years to tame the standby lamps all over the house.

 

[Esprit]

Green for ON, Red for OFF, Orange for Standby​

 

[ZolaIII]

Either way what it can't do bright or short wave and low intensity not popping eyes out and enough to see it.

 

[ZolaIII]

Green for ON, Red for OFF, Orange for Standby​

Semaphoring aren't you but to applied formal logic it goes.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

As I am R-G compromised (as are a significant proportion of US males), I cannot always tell if an LED is red or green because the illuminated LEDS are not sufficiently saturated. Blue/purple/violet? Forget about it.

I prefer multiple LEDS whatever colors are chosen because I can readily learn which light means what.

 

[ZolaIII]

As I am R-G compromised (as are a significant proportion of US males), I cannot always tell if an LED is red or green because the illuminated LEDS are not sufficiently saturated. Blue/purple/violet? Forget about it.

I prefer multiple LEDS whatever colors are chosen because I can readily learn which light means what.

I wouldn't move offset for grean and let's face it it won't be high intensity anyway and yes saturated red and orange. Still it will be dependant on direct light for any led. There is a reason why it's behind world wide road signalling semaphore system and also why you can't have driver's license if you have color blindness.

Edit: Actually your old battery three lv indicator would work for everyone.

 

[Esprit]

Semaphoring aren't you but to applied formal logic it goes.

Given that in my case the red is on the multi-socket always energized, my Adams have the green light when it turns on and orange when in standby. No off color (there is as written above on the multiple socket).

P.S. I hate the very bright white of the Apple TV…

 

[digitalfrost]

Nothing for off. Green or Blue for on. I prefer blue, but when back when blue LEDs were new, all the companies put them in and didn't adjust the brightness properly so they would laser your eyes in a dark room. A properly tuned blue LED is nice though.

 

[ZolaIII]

Given that in my case the red is on the multi-socket always energized, my Adams have the green light when it turns on and orange when in standby. No off color (there is as written above on the multiple socket).

We just moved beyond formal logic, only thing is to pick part of the spectrum very most won't see as intrusive and will be able to see change in intensity and wight or hight keeping the same principle (get set, get ready and go).

 

[Robin L]

I'm happy with what my gear is doing right now. The AVR is either on or off. If it's on the front display shows the word "Straight". That indicates there's no treatment of the sound, no treble/bass adjustment, no room effects. It also shows what input is being used. I use the AVR only as a power amp, all I really need to know is whether it's on or not.

The Topping E30 DAC has amber displays. Standby is a tiny amber dot. When the DAC is on it displays sample rate in bigger amber numbers, the input with a smaller font in dull gray-green. The Topping L30 has a tiny green light when on, nothing when off.

I'd say amber for everything, tiny, multiple lights to indicate inputs or standby, off for off.

 

[mhardy6647]

actually, upon reflection -- I guess my preferred power on indicator colo(u)r is a warm sort of orange glow.





Thoriated tungsten glare, on the other hand, is a bit too much.

 

[MattHooper]

I generally don’t like lights that stay on equipment as I find that distracting.

But in general, I’m used to red as standby.

In terms of numerical or textual read out, I’d prefer something soft and warm like amber.
Not a fan of stark red.

 

[Martin]

Blue for ON / Red for STANDBY / No light for OFF

Martin

 

[levimax]

Green for on, off for off, and off for standby

 

[ZolaIII]

I really like idea of 3 state battery alike indicator with up to 4 active states and off beyond on/of switch.

 

[Multicore]

On for on and off for off.

 

[Oddball]

Hmm, I heard that long time ago they started producing lights that can actually change colour at your demand. Those are the ones I would prefer. Some days are just blue and other days might feel orange, green, white or even yellow. Red I would save for clipping and other negative connotations.

But obviously these multi colour mini bulbs must be pretty expensive, as have not seen them. And its also probably quite difficult to write few additional lines for the firmware code to implement such extravagant solution .

 

[Bjorn]

White/beige for On and orange for Standby. Hey, that happens to be what our present Vera Audio amps are using!

 

[ryanosaur]

Flashing for errors, only.

I like my outlaws that are orange for standby, green for on.

Off should just be off. No light needed.

 

[Count Arthur]

Hmm, I heard that long time ago they started producing lights that can actually change colour at your demand. Those are the ones I would prefer. Some days are just blue and other days might feel orange, green, white or even yellow. Red I would save for clipping and other negative connotations.

But obviously these multi colour mini bulbs must be pretty expensive, as have not seen them. And its also probably quite difficult to write few additional lines for the firmware code to implement such extravagant solution .

RGB LEDs have been around for a while now. They're almost compulsory on home PC hardware.

Go nuts and have all the colours all the time for the full, migraine inducing, unicorn puke light show!