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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Current consumption of LCD kitchen timer?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 17:38:33 -0700
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On Mon, 19 May 2025 00:47:29 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

>On 18/05/2025 20:22, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 May 2025 19:47:37 +0100, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 18/05/2025 18:18, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 18 May 2025 09:28:19 +0100, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/05/2025 16:39, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you design electronics? That benefits from quantitative instincts,
>>>>>> and I think helps develop them.
>>>>>
>>>>> On some domestic appliances I have the designer has included thne option
>>>>> to turn off the beeps :)
>>>>
>>>> The option should be to turn them on.
>>>>
>>> How about the non-optional flashing mode that all LED torches seem to
>>> have?  Design sponsored by the manufacturers of migraine drugs?
>> 
>> If  your car is dead on the side of a road, they can be used as a
>> warning that will last longer than a flare.
>
>Agreed, but the design is such that you have to click through all the 
>possible modes, in order to switch the torch off.
>I wouldn't mind if flashing was a separate selectable mode, but the 
>usual arrangement just puts lots of extra wear on the ON/OFF switch - 
>which is always the weakest component in the whole thing.>
>> Still, a closet light doesn't need to blink.
>> 
>> I get migraine auras but don't get the headache, which can be horrible
>> for some people for days.
>
>I have the same from time to time (aura but no headache).  It sometimes 
>makes reading difficult, but doesn't usually last more than a few minutes.
>Fortunetely I've never had the problem whilst driving.>
>> Yesterday the upper half of my visual field want dark, with a sort of
>> burning tree in the corner. That's a new one. Couldn't read for about
>> 20 minutes.
>  Never had a burning tree.  It's probably best to avoid googling for that.

I somtimes wonder if engineers have any tendencies towards autism or
auras or face blindness or any of those sorts of things.

Dyslexia could explain all those bad manuals. And posts here.