{"id":742,"date":"2016-08-07T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2016-08-08T00:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T05:44:26","slug":"led-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"LED lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_9362.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_9362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_9362.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_9362-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_9362-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_9362-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kind of a filler post here&#8230;but lately, I&#8217;ve been outfitting my pedals&#8217; bypass indicators with these fresnel lens covers instead of bezels. Generally speaking, I think a lot of pedal manufacturers need to tone it down with the brightness of these LEDs. Perhaps it&#8217;s common that stage lights (or playing outdoors) warrant an annoyingly bright indicator, but I always felt it was overkill.\u00c2\u00a0If I ever ran into the issue, I&#8217;d just change the LED resistor to something higher, or I&#8217;d just swap the LED (usually water clear) to a diffused one.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to these lenses. I just think they look great. I really like the way they diffuse the light, even in cases where the LED is brighter than I&#8217;d normally like it.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxpedal.com\">Foxpedal<\/a> Refinery actually had a fresnel lens cover (flat version) for the LED, but I replaced it the one seen here and swapped the red LED with a warm white one. Since this pedal is always on, this LED is now like a mini lantern!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a filler post here&#8230;but lately, I&#8217;ve been outfitting my pedals&#8217; bypass indicators with these fresnel lens covers instead of bezels. Generally speaking, I think a lot of pedal manufacturers need to tone it down with the brightness of these LEDs. Perhaps it&#8217;s common that stage lights (or playing outdoors) warrant an annoyingly bright indicator, but I always felt it was overkill.\u00c2\u00a0If I ever ran into the issue, I&#8217;d just change the LED resistor to something higher, or I&#8217;d just swap the LED (usually water clear) to a diffused one. Anyway, back to these lenses. I just think they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,121,9,6],"tags":[294,307,220,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mongchacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}