Safety

Safety Guidance

Last updated: July 2, 2026

SimLight Golf controls real lighting hardware in your simulator room. Two things deserve a careful read before your first round: how the light effects can affect people who are sensitive to flashing light, and the electrical side of installing LED strips. Neither takes long, and both matter.

The short version

  • SimLight can produce flashing, strobing, and rapidly changing light. If you or anyone who uses the room has a photosensitive condition or a history of seizures, read the first section and talk to a doctor before enabling dynamic effects.
  • If anyone experiences dizziness, altered vision, twitching, or disorientation while the lights are running, stop immediately and consult a physician.
  • LED strips, power supplies, and wiring can overheat or catch fire if undersized, miswired, or run beyond their ratings. Size and wire your hardware to each manufacturer's specifications, and bring in a qualified electrician if you're not confident.
  • Questions or concerns: support@simlightgolf.com.

1. Photosensitivity and flashing effects

A very small percentage of people may experience seizures, blackouts, or other symptoms when exposed to certain flashing lights, rapid color changes, or patterns, sometimes with no prior history of anything similar. SimLight's shot and celebration effects can include exactly those kinds of strobing, flashing, and fast color changes.

Before using SimLight, if you, or anyone in your household or anyone who will share the simulator room, has an epileptic condition or has previously experienced seizures, consult a doctor first.

Stop immediately and consult a physician if anyone experiences any of the following while the lights are running: dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitching, disorientation, loss of awareness, or convulsions.

Ways to reduce the intensity

  • Choose the Clean effect theme. In the app's Lighting page, the "Clean" theme uses calm sweeps and fades; "Flashy" adds sparkles and extra motion. Clean is the calmer choice for shared or family rooms.
  • Turn down Master brightness. Lower brightness reduces the contrast between flashes and the room.
  • Keep some ambient light in the room. Bright flashes in a fully dark room are more intense on the eyes.

2. Electrical and fire safety

In practice, the things that matter most when you install your lighting:

  • Size the power supply to the strip. Use a supply rated for your strip's full load with headroom, per the strip manufacturer's specifications. SimLight configures a conservative current limit in your controller based on the details you enter, but it cannot verify what you actually wired.
  • Wire it properly. Correct polarity, adequate wire gauge for the current, solid connections, and appropriate fusing or circuit protection. Loose or undersized connections are the classic overheating cause.
  • Respect every rating. Don't run any component past what its manufacturer specifies, and give power supplies ventilation rather than enclosing or covering them.
  • Raising limits is on you. If you raise current or power settings, in the app or directly in your controller (e.g. WLED), you do so at your own risk.
  • When in doubt, get help. If you're not confident performing electrical work safely, consult a qualified electrician. Local electrical codes apply to your installation.

The setup guide walks through a sensible installation, including mounting and wiring.

3. If something seems wrong

  • Anything hot to the touch, discolored, or smelling of burning: disconnect the power supply first, then investigate.
  • Any of the symptoms in section 1: stop use immediately and consult a physician.
  • Not sure whether a behavior is normal? Ask us: support@simlightgolf.com.

4. Contact

Norwell Labs LLC
support@simlightgolf.com
simlightgolf.com