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GusPop

Mar 19, 2015

The people saying that these do not work with LEDs other than white ones are mistaken. I bought the Ducky Shine 3 with magenta backlighting (it was marketed as purple at the time of purchase :C ) and have put the yellow colour changers on. The effect is an orange backlight. I was aiming for a red backlight based on the subtractive properties of light (the way light waves interact with each other forming new light waves) but obviously this does not work as well as I had anticipated. To counter this I may need to get a more aggressive colour or LED changer such as orange to achieve red.
The brightness is slightly reduced.
DO NOT think that the way colours in ink mix to produce other colours is the same way that light mixes. This is simply not the case.
Please stop posting misinformation about these. If a problem occurs due to your lack of research then I can say that it is nobodies fault but your own.

Mar 19, 2015

Bernie

Mar 20, 2015

You are incorrect. The way filters work is that a yellow filter will only allow yellow light to pass through. (Depending on how good the filter is). A red LED will emit only red light. By placing a blue filter on the LED, you theoretically would block all light. Because it's not a perfect LED nor a perfect filter, however, the LED will emit some traces of blue light, and the filter will allow some traces of red light to pass through. Thus, you get a slight mixture of blue and red, but not necessarily what you would get by mixing blue and red ink. It would be closer, in fact, to a mixture of blue and red light.

Mar 20, 2015