JohnSwenson wrote: > Now to open up the can of worms, someone mentioned a "power light" on > the front panel. > > Putting a simple light on the front panel that is hooked directly up to > the power input is a piece of cake. BUT people are notorious for not > liking that. Its the wrong color, its too bright, its too dim, it has to > auto correct for the surroundings etc. It needs to be on a timer so it > goes off at night..... > > I could put a tri color led on the front panel and hook it up to 3 pwm > outputs from the processor and let the users fight over how it gets > controlled, but then it becomes a "the cpu is up and running and the led > control software is loaded" rather than a simple power light. > > And then the moment I put any indicator on the front panel, the > floodgates open and I won't be able to keep it to just a power light, > there will be hundreds of requests for every type of indicator, screen > etc. And I'm trying to prevent that for the first board. I REALLY REALLY > want to keep the first board to a black box player, with external > control and display, anything else is going to radically increase the > time to market and I don't want that to happen. > > So given that rant, do I still put a power light on the front panel? > > John S. And there was me expecting it to spell out errors in morse code (in my favourite colour of course).
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