On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Folderol wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:46:01 +0200
> fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
>
> > 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 :(
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.
> 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) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Sun Jul 18 04:15:02 2010
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