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I have also red-green color blindness and it makes me really mad that a lot (like 90%) devices have a tiny LED that indicates if it is charged and the LED changes color from red to green when it is fully charged - I have to ask my kid or wife what color it is.

Please please, if you work in hardware, make it a red/blue or green/blue colors for empty/fully charged, or make it blink, anything, just not tiny 1 pixel size red or green color (or amber/yellow, they are equally hard to distinguish for people like me from green).



Turn off light when charged, works for Panasonic batteries charger.


Unfortunately the light also turns off when the charger is broken, or unplugged.




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