17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
11:23 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Folderol wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:46:01 +0200
fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
Membrane switches should be banned from industrial equipment
by law (health and safety regulations come to mind). Any switch
used in such an environment should require a force of at least
10 N to operate it, and be designed to survice being hit by a
20 pound hammer.
Still it's quite sobering that this cheap
0.30 Euro thing
was capable of bringing down a 1600 Euro workstation...
Who would suspect a switch to fail in this way ?
Ciao,
Not the least bit surprised. In my industry crappy membrane switches
bring £3,000,000 printing presses to a halt :( Doesn't help that operators tend to poke them with
allen keys,
screwdrivers, pens or whatever else they may happen to have in their
hand at the time.
The strange thing about that PC power switch is that it is
almost never used. The rendering machines wake up by a LAN
message from the master, and shutdown by remote control as
well. They are never touched.
Ciao,
--
Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais
nonchalant d’elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait.
(Michel de Montaigne)