REDUCE LED BRIGHTNESS WITHOUT A DIMMER!! 

"You can be seen from space"🤣🤣... I laughed so hard.. I had that exact problem, that's why I came for this video

Happiness is to know that there people out there with similar problems

This channel is pure Gold. Well done and thank you, sir! I hope it takes off for you.

These DIY videos are great! Keep them coming!

I just moved into a new apartment, and I wanted to replace the bulbs because all of the lights are insanely bright. Turns out, they are all led lights. I will definitely try this. Thanks for the great vid.

Thank you for such a thorough tutorial and comparison! Very much appreciate your time and detail.

Awesome video!!! My super cheap recessed light was glued together, so I can't even open it up. Instead I cut 3 pieces of parchment paper and used double sided tape to adhere the paper sheets to each other, then to the outside of the fixture. It's not elegant - but it works! (I traced around a wine glass to get a perfect circle, so I guess that makes it a little bit elegant!)

Thanks so much for this informative (and fun) video. I used an off-brand of Baby Don't Cry and I am no longer crying when my new range hood lights are on.

I used parchment paper for large LED lights in my garage - saved me $50 in dimming film. Works great. Thanks!

Brother, thank you so much for the ideas. Was going bananas trying to figure out a way to get my new LED recessed lights to dim further. They were waaaay too bright even at the lowest setting on the dimmer switch. The parchment paper trick worked perfectly!! Depending on the amount of parchment paper sheets you use or the "tint" they happen to be, you can fine tune the lights to near perfect. Thanks again for the video. It was..... brilliant! 🍺

Thank you for this! If so many people are having this exact problem, why aren't the manufacturers doing something about it?????

Your video gave my wife an idea to dim our two LED fan lights. We choose the Parchment Paper solution. Our fans frosted light cover is 7" in diameter. She found a serving bowl of that size. She traced the outline onto Parchment Paper, and cut to that line. (We found that an additional cut to the center of each sheet we made allowed us to tuck the paper easily into the inside of the globe. We ended up using three circles of PP for each light.---THANK YOU for the inspiration!!!

Excellent trick! Keep up the nice work. Cheers!

I am an electrician but never installed LED downlights. This video was good but to stick the "baby don't cry" on the outside of my downlights looked bad. My back plate on a 4" round was obstructed from coming off so after 3 tries at different installs I just did like you said and took out the screws on the back plate, then from the finished side I pushed the lens up away from the trim and installed the "baby don't cry" sheet WITHOUT removing the backing that covers the sticky stuff. Just push it up a bit and gently install the round cut-out sheet backing and all. Looks great. Thanks

Nice video mate 👍

You have a nice calm voice. Subscribed! Thanks for the ideas

I really appreciate this video. You did a great job with the comparison!

You have a great sense of humor

Great video, I needed this fix on sme newly installed leds. Baby don't cry no more! 🍻

Three layers of parchment paper worked great for a too bright LED half globe hall light. Thought I'd have to replace, but saw your video and gave it a try. Lined the globe with the layers of paper, formed it to the globe, cut it and cut a hole for the mount. Worked great!!!! Thank you!

Thanks will try on my office lights. Appreciate the video.

I don't like overbright LEDs either, I will definitely try these tips.

Very helpful. Thank you. ☺️

The parchment paper worked great for me! I had unbleached parchment paper on hand for baking and I really liked how the slight brownish color gave my under-cabinet lighting a soft warm glow. Thanks so much for tip! I thought I was going to need to install a dimmer.

The sound of your voice is calm and pleasant. You definitely will keep growing on here. Question...is it safe to have tape inside the light?

I love your sense of humour 😂

I used parchment paper and it worked! I also did put an extra Graphite coating with the help of a pencil and that made it dimmer easily.

Loved this video mate! I'm in exact situation!

This was really helpful. Ty!!

Thanks for the hints

I'm PMSing and I like this video. Dunno how I got here. But good job 😭. Baby no cry.

Thank you very much. Great video.

good video, great personality

that "baby no cry" cracked me everytime lmao and thanks 7:35 NOOO😭😭 ur voice is nice

Great job! I have square lamps for LED exterior lighting installed and the ones closest to the house are way too glare oriented. I'm going to try the baby light dims on the closer to the front door so you don't walk out feeling you're getting blasted. Great job!

Thank god I saw your video! I was going to put the light filters on my baby's eyes. I now see that was the wrong approach.

great comparison

You're hilarious. Subscribing, even though this didn't help my particular situation since my issue is the LED bulb sizes that fit in my recessed cans are crazy bright.

Nice Thank you

Thanks for this great video. What dimmer switch would you recommend with the lights you are showing, I have the same ones and want to install a dimmer switch

When we switched to LED lights, there was an ungodly amount of shadows cast around the rooms. After doing “baby don’t cry” , those shadows decreased and disappeared completely. Some areas we used 2 layers. It’s been working pretty well so far.

I subscribed. Would appreciate your advice. 1st purchased monster led strips for a small music studio and built a black guard on top of sound boxes so the blue light is above - very cool for the price. The problem I am having is I like working under soft lighting but the leds - do not produce much more than cool accent lighting - even 7 of them. So, I found at the dollar store of all places a government contract for them to sell fairly small black led desk lamps at a very low cost but non-dim able. Of course, they are too bright white. I tried several things - 1st purchased blue plastic school folders and cut circles to fit - color worked but heat increased on the fixture. I drilled some small air holes and of course, killed a couple of lamps before I think I got the heat down but - I need some white light, thus I would like to dim these. For a small desk lamp, it is a powerful little too bright white. There does not look like there is anything on these to take apart and do what you did. I was wondering if you knew of any product that could lessen the white light but not increase heat within the lamp. Amazon has these round pieces - various sizes - half I would never use and a couple of sheets of material that can be cut - but they say nothing about increasing internal heat. So my question is - do you have any idea of the material that can reside or stick to the outside of a bright white dimmable led light that will not produce more heat and something I could try to reach a level to where I could use four or less of these on a studio desk? Cool little lights - the government allows Dollar Stores to sell for $1.25 to get people to use to cut back on energy usage - man that is a great price but it may just not work unless I can find a way to dim the white light AND I hope to cover a couple with a blue film to add to the blue hue of the room - a favorite color. You have some great stuff - thanks -

Hello, thank you for the advice. Any suggestions for the LED pool lights. I could not find any dimmable ones and now need a way to dim them yet make waterproof. I can open the cover with the clear plastic shield, but am wondering if using adhesive dimming film will stay or maybe painting the transparent protective shield is a better option?

Any suggestions for dimming LED lights in rice light form? I bought a table top tree with branches made of (and lit by) twisted LED rice lights. It is soooooo bright.... We've thought about maybe trying rubber cement.

for a cleaner install on the baby dont cry paper, you couldve taken the light apart and cut it to fit just like you did the rest.

Thanks! I'm going to try a small square of duct tape over the dome of my too bright round bulbs.

Thank you for not shouting!

Thank you so much I would have gone blind if not for this. I ended up using a sticker sheet which works the same as a baby don't cry sheet and is cheaper.

I want to try one of these on the glass cover of my porch light (a led strip behind a glass cover and metal cage, 800 ridiculous lumens that was the only thing that would fit next to the door), but I worry about something starting a fire (even if it's not supposed to). The metal base of the light gets up to 120°F when its 100°F outside and 92°F when its 72°F outside. So Im just very worried all the time.

This is genius! I will add that the wafer LEDs are the worst culprit for glare. Get a recessed that has the LED light as far above the ceiling plane as possible., and if you want the least glare get the trim interior in Alzak or haze (acid washed Alzak).

Does this reduce the Lumens? I added several similar lights like yours to existing ceiling lights not realizing that the new one were 800 lumnes and the old ones are 700 lumens.

Glad I found this I’m having the same issue luckily only 2 lights in the living room but WAY to bright!!! Lol I’m gonna use duck tape my wife likes it dark anyways

what about using privacy spray paint on the diffuser?

Isn’t there a way to just remove some of the LEDs? Or would that mean having to change other components?

I’m looking on Amazon and I can’t find the baby don’t cry softening sheets… Can you share the link to them? Thank you

Came for the DIY, stayed for the lols

Hi great video what’s the app u used on your phone

I solved my problem! The light was too bright in my room. My 24 watts 4000k ceiling led light have a flat and rounded shape. Was easy to open it up and put 8 layers of parchment paper, (a cheap one bought from a supermarket ) and now it's like the watts went to 24 to 18watts more or less. Also the light now is a little warmer, i'd say around 5200k

The sound of your voice is not annoying. OK, got over that. I just installed new 48 inch LED light bulbs in my old neon fixtures, and eliminated the ballasts. Quite bright, so I am asking what can I put in the fixtures besides the same plastic covers to tone the brightness down? I was thinking some other kind of plastic sheeting on top of the existing one in there now. Any comments would be appreciated. THUMBS UP!!

Will the 'baby don't cry' sheets hold up outside? What is the brand name by the way and are they self adhesive? I want to dull a neighbors stupid as hell flood lights aimed needlessly directly at my house.

😂✨Nice vid!!

can you please give the name of the item you bought at amazon? what is the price?

I went a little farther with unbleached parchment paper. It is perfect!

Did you ever end up trying multiple sheets of parchment paper? If so then how did it work?

Can I come to your studio to learn editing

It my recessed lights are already installed in the roof?? What can I do???

That last joke got a sub. :D

haha your voice IS a little annoying (kidding) but great video , good idea ... this is a big money saver over dimmers for every room .. 👌i think your internal mods are better than the sticky sheet on the exterior which would be annoyingly visible .

May I know the name of the lux meter software ?

Then maybe the best solution is : use a duct tape but do not cover the whole of the white sheet > but if you change them to a lower wattage it will be great > thank you

He is hilarious

HAHAHAHAHA crazy funny loves it

Is the parchment paper a fire hazard?

Why don’t downlights come in reduced lumens? What a waste of electricity!

when you 50 years old and dont know about resistors

Bro nice idea but duct tape has some aluminum, I think it's a nice fire hazzard, please anybody prove me wrong if I'm mistaken

But isn’t it a complete waste of electricity to sabotage a bright light. Buy lower wattage lighting?

your comment " can literally be seen from space", thats how irritating is the glare from these led bulbs in any form [be it t bulb, regular bulb, disco bulb or anything], its so annoying while i am not able to find a single viable led bulb option for my study room without any irritating bright glares,

Instead of buying overpriced sheets off the net, at any craft store, you can buy defusing sheets designed to enhance privacy by applying said sheets to transparent glass.