Are you colorblind? Do you know if the recharger is done?

[reverendg]

Well since red is a primary and green isn't. Can you just put on a pair of 3-D glasses?

Wouldn't that alter one colored light, but not the other?

That sounded like it made perfect sense, and I happened to have two pairs sitting on my tv (it's not 3d, me and the wife went to see avatar at the theater. But it didn't seem to make a difference for me. But it is late, and I do have glaucoma and failing eyesite in general, so I'm not the best judge on how it might work with younger eyes. Worth a shot.

Hey, sorry you share my problem, but its good to know I'm not the only one.

You'd have at least one customer if listed some "colorblind friendly" chargers

All you have to do is go to my site and it's the 510 thumb chargers, and when you order just write colorblind in the comments section. I would throw links up for you but I think it's breaking the rules . I may have made a faux paux already just saying that I carry them, but due to the nature of our shared problem, I felt compelled to help a brother bat Clicking on my sig banner takes you to the site.

<-- RG colorblind, although I prefer color deficient, since we can see both red and green ... just not the subtleties which people with normal color vision can see. I think it is not a coincidence that blue is my favorite color. To me, blue is the most vivid of colors, while red is a bland color. When I see a red rose bush, I'm pretty much unaware of the blossoms until I'm near enough to clearly see the FORM of them. It just doesn't jump out at me like it apparently does for most people.

My KR808 chargers use the darned red/green bicolor LEDs and other than light intensity I can't tell them apart. The red seems more luminous. R/G bicolor LEDs are virtually useless to me. I should say, they're about as useful to me as a single color power indicator LED would be.

Statistically, 8-10% of men have some degree of color deficiency, while 0.5% of women do ... 20X more common in men. But, not exceedingly rare in women. I don't have the stats, but I've always heard that total color blindness, or monochromacy, is very rare.

I agree on the blue, my favorite color in the world, I can see it very vivdly. But throw some purple in the mix and I can get thrown. But like most, it tends to be the red /brown/ green spectrums that screw me up a little.

I thought the eye doctor years ago was nuts when he showed me that stupid color wheel filled with the different colored dots. I was supposed to see a number in beach one. Well let's just say I got through the first page or two and then said "yea right" l.o.l But that was when he called his nurse in to read to me the numbers (that by the way was when he told me that the nurses ability to see them all was because they're never colorblind.

 

[vapi]

I use kr808d-1 too, they take around 3-4 hours for a full charge. Have you considered just timing it?

 

[greyrat]

I see the number "56"

 

[NCC]

I see the number "56"

Then we haven't got the same 'deficiency'. I see random dots.

Check this out.

 

[THE]

Thanks for opening my (colorblind) eyes , that was fascinating. Doctors don't know everything!

Maybe I could put a certain color filter over the charger light that would help the green show up better for me.

You stole my idea!!

 

[beetlespin]

Well, I may be all by myself, but when I recharge my batteries, I have to ask my wife if the light is green! I am red-green colorblind and most of my rechargers use red-green lights. Luckily for my KR808D-1 PV, the charger has red-blue lights and I can easily see blue. By the way, my doctor told me that only males can be colorblind.

Does anyone have this problem???

Yea it sucks. I have to ask as well but some times if the red is dark enough I can tell it from green. Like ego light I can tell the change. But 95% of the time I can not.

 

[beetlespin]

That sounded like it made perfect sense, and I happened to have two pairs sitting on my tv (it's not 3d, me and the wife went to see avatar at the theater. But it didn't seem to make a difference for me. But it is late, and I do have glaucoma and failing eyesite in general, so I'm not the best judge on how it might work with younger eyes. Worth a shot.



All you have to do is go to my site and it's the 510 thumb chargers, and when you order just write colorblind in the comments section. I would throw links up for you but I think it's breaking the rules . I may have made a faux paux already just saying that I carry them, but due to the nature of our shared problem, I felt compelled to help a brother bat Clicking on my sig banner takes you to the site.



I agree on the blue, my favorite color in the world, I can see it very vivdly. But throw some purple in the mix and I can get thrown. But like most, it tends to be the red /brown/ green spectrums that screw me up a little.

I thought the eye doctor years ago was nuts when he showed me that stupid color wheel filled with the different colored dots. I was supposed to see a number in beach one. Well let's just say I got through the first page or two and then said "yea right" l.o.l But that was when he called his nurse in to read to me the numbers (that by the way was when he told me that the nurses ability to see them all was because they're never colorblind.

I was at School when I found out. I was coloring water and sky purple and grass brown lol. The teacher took me to the side with color chart ask me point of colors. Let just say I fail it bad. red,Green.brown,purple,blue but I found if the colors are bright I can tell them apart some times.

 

[reverendg]

I see the number "56"

Well then you're not that colorblind

Then we haven't got the same 'deficiency'. I see random dots.

Check this out.

Same here random dots

I was at School when I found out. I was coloring water and sky purple and grass brown lol. The teacher took me to the side with color chart ask me point of colors. Let just say I fail it bad. red,Green.brown,purple,blue but I found if the colors are bright I can tell them apart some times.

I found out from my dad when I was little. He's an electronics technician and when I was young he wanted to teach me the business, that is until he handed me a resistor and asked me to tell him , based on the color bands, what the resistance was. Well, that was when he told me that I'd never be able to do his job, and he never taught me another thing about electronics.

really ticks me off too, cause I want to build mods. I'm good at soldering though

I took an official dot test though when I worked for a company driving a truck, the doctor had to give the okay on my peepers before they'd let me drive. Well, the doc told me that I was colorblind. Duh. But I needed that job at the time so I looked around the docs office and started calling out colors. green peppers, red tomatoes, yellow bananas. Then I told him the red light is on top, amber in the middle and green on the bottom. He took pity on me I guess, cause he said allright be careful. Then gave me a pass.

 

[tenzip]

I'm not colorblind, but I have had some friends who are. As far as the traffic lights, the red is always on the top, or on the left, I learned to drive with a friend who was colorblind. At least in the US, they are.

Another friend in electronics school got to use a meter to identify resistors while the rest of us struggled along reading the bands on the resistors. But he did have a bit of difficulty aligning the color guns in a TV. That was pretty hilarious. He did what he thought was a pretty good job, called the instructor (who didn't know) over, and the instructor said, "That looks like s#it!" We all about died laughing.

 

[NCC]

I found out from my dad when I was little. He's an electronics technician and when I was young he wanted to teach me the business, that is until he handed me a resistor and asked me to tell him , based on the color bands, what the resistance was.

I had precisely the same experience in my mid-teens. And then found some color test charts in my Mom's psychology text book which pretty well wrapped it all up.

 

[greyrat]

Well then you're not that colorblind



Same here random dots



I found out from my dad when I was little. He's an electronics technician and when I was young he wanted to teach me the business, that is until he handed me a resistor and asked me to tell him , based on the color bands, what the resistance was. Well, that was when he told me that I'd never be able to do his job, and he never taught me another thing about electronics.

really ticks me off too, cause I want to build mods. I'm good at soldering though

I took an official dot test though when I worked for a company driving a truck, the doctor had to give the okay on my peepers before they'd let me drive. Well, the doc told me that I was colorblind. Duh. But I needed that job at the time so I looked around the docs office and started calling out colors. green peppers, red tomatoes, yellow bananas. Then I told him the red light is on top, amber in the middle and green on the bottom. He took pity on me I guess, cause he said allright be careful. Then gave me a pass.

I can only partially see one number out of these 6 images you linked to!

 

[leannebug]

Well since red is a primary and green isn't. Can you just put on a pair of 3-D glasses?

Wouldn't that alter one colored light, but not the other?

That sounded like it made perfect sense, and I happened to have two pairs sitting on my tv (it's not 3d, me and the wife went to see avatar at the theater. But it didn't seem to make a difference for me. But it is late, and I do have glaucoma and failing eyesite in general, so I'm not the best judge on how it might work with younger eyes. Worth a shot.
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Sounded like it might work to me too Maybe a different set of colors in the glasses? Since they are primary and secondary.. something that blocks out the primary?

 

[FreakyStylie]

My chargers all have a blink to them while they are red and charging, but stay solid when they are green and finished. I have an eGo, a Riva, 2 multi-port 510 chargers, a single 510 charger, and an UltraFire charger, and they all do the same thing. Maybe that is the reason they do it?

I just found the same thing on a Sony forum last night. Somebody had posted that they blink while charging to aid in determining the charge cycle. IDK, I just noticed that one of mine is red while charging, but blinks green very quickly. Maybe it blinking to green wouldn't be noticeable.