On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Folderol wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:46:01 +0200 > [email protected] 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 [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
