revilla Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 In my mind it works like this: http://www.revilla.plus.com/Headlight%20Switch.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative gileshudson Posted September 5, 2014 Area Representative Share Posted September 5, 2014 Quoting revilla: In my mind it works like this: +1 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazerBrain Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 😬 For most light switches around the home, pushing the lower part of the switch gives more light than pushing the upper part - the dip switch fits with this in my mind. As others have said - it's easy enough to rotate the switch to have it work the way you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Now swap the volume switches on an Ipad. Drives me crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazerBrain Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Quoting Stridey: If you can stand cheesey American adverts... 'Light Dims' ! I have a set of sample filters from a theatre lighting supplier (picked up in the '80s!) which I use for cutting down light levels from irritating LEDs. My HP Microserver has a massive blue HP logo for a status indicator. A little bit of red filter has cut this down to almost nothing, yet will allow the 'warning' colours to show through. Back to John Aston's comment about the 'econometer' - is this in the speedo or the tacho? There might be a suitable way of stopping it at source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted September 5, 2014 Member Share Posted September 5, 2014 Nice diagram, Andrew. Mental models are crucial in ergonomics. The selector for the electric windows on my Espace controls Left-Null-Right. I still turn it the wrong way because my model is 10 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock. And theirs is 8 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 4 o'clock. The picture on it shows their view, but mental models beat instructional pictures. Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted September 5, 2014 Member Share Posted September 5, 2014 Quoting Jonathan Kay: My dip switch is a toggle switch which wouldn't be too hard to... invert.Or swop the leads on the terminals. Or would you prefer a push-push switch? Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graearea Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 (edited) On 04/09/2014 at 08:02, john aston said: Driving my 2007 Seven at night the other day I was reminded how much irritates; not only the random lighting of some switches but the counter-intuitive 'dip switch' and the stupidly bright shift lights. On my car and presumably lots of others there is a green light which stays on constantly at less than 3500rpm- the 'econometer' or whatever- which is stupidly bright, if not as bad as the main beam light , which is stronger than the bloody headlights and which I have now taped over as it was so distracting . Little things but really..... reading this ten years later, I can confirm that his old car still has the same problem. I still have tape over the high beam (which was indeed useless) and I'm planning on figuring out the stupid 'econometer' shift light now I have the scuttle off. I think the 'econometer' is a warning on the ACES to say your revs are too low and you should shift down Edited February 14 by graearea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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