upstatemike
Senior Member
It looks like I may have hit a show-stopper that could put an end to my Insteon conversion project. It was noticed that some of the LEDs on the newest switches I installed this morning do not exactly match some other switches that I have installed in weeks and months passed... and the decorator police are not pleased!
One of the original selling points that allowed me to move forward with Insteon was the unique aqua LEDs. These were actually just the green light pipes installed but the LEDs have a natural blue tint to them so the result is a very attractive aqua color.
I don't know if I got a bad batch of light pipes or if the LED color temperature has changed in the newer switches but the new LEDs are definitely a different color. They are less aqua and more green and when an old switch is close to a new one the difference is obvious.
In any large installation consistency is critical. You just can't have mismatched shades of color and this is just as true with LEDs as it is for rocker parts and switch plates.
It was suggested that if I don't find a way to get the aqua color back on the newer switches that I might feel more at home living in some double-wide trailer where my "green" LEDs will fit right in with the artificial woodgrain paneling and shag carpet. I don't want to do that so I am hoping somebody else has seen this and knows if it is a light pipe or color temperature problem and can tell me how to fix it fast!
One of the original selling points that allowed me to move forward with Insteon was the unique aqua LEDs. These were actually just the green light pipes installed but the LEDs have a natural blue tint to them so the result is a very attractive aqua color.
I don't know if I got a bad batch of light pipes or if the LED color temperature has changed in the newer switches but the new LEDs are definitely a different color. They are less aqua and more green and when an old switch is close to a new one the difference is obvious.
In any large installation consistency is critical. You just can't have mismatched shades of color and this is just as true with LEDs as it is for rocker parts and switch plates.
It was suggested that if I don't find a way to get the aqua color back on the newer switches that I might feel more at home living in some double-wide trailer where my "green" LEDs will fit right in with the artificial woodgrain paneling and shag carpet. I don't want to do that so I am hoping somebody else has seen this and knows if it is a light pipe or color temperature problem and can tell me how to fix it fast!