What Could Go Wrong When The Dial Looks So Happy?
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the settings make no sense either. None, 1/2 or 1/1 lights? Is this a train,plane or bus?
Neutral, Half Smile, Full Smile.
This is from a train in Central Europe. Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, that area. Actually the settings make sense if you try them. With 1/2 you still could try to catch some sleep, it is enough light to read, but not very bright.
What is the leftmost knob for? It looks like a volume knob due to what looks like a speaker icon. If it is, what sound does it control?
we have the same trains in france and i’m pretty sure this one in particular is french because “maxi” is the short for “maximum” here when it’s “max” almost everywhere else
This is from a regional and slow mowing train, usually you get to a stop every 10 minutes or so at a station you never heard of. With this knob you can control the volume of the announcements of the porter.
Thank you, piggledy =)
Looks like a hospital’s bed overhead panel. The smiley knob makes sense if it is for kids.
train, czech republic
we in croatia have the same train (i recognized it immediatly).. ;D how cool is that?!
Whatever you do, don’t turn the smiley-face knob…
I dunno…. N=None, 1/2 = Half Power, 1/1 = Full Power. Seems straight forward to me.
Fuel gauges on European cars are usually marked the same way…0, 1/2, 1/1. One exception is old Volkswagens, on those it’s usually R (for “reserve”) instead of 0.
And after the ‘R’ there’s a ‘P’ for ‘Push’?
“normal” people in the States don’t do maths so 1/2 is considered 1 out of 2 and 1/1 is considered 1 out of 1. It seems that people in the rest of the world know that 1/2 means “half” of any amount and “1/1″ equals the “full” amount of something.
Guess I’m not normal. Pretty much every German car I’ve seen has that style of gauge reading.
Doesn’t go up to 11, though.
Wood metamorphosis half-way complete!
What is this thing that has controls for volume, temperature, and lights? What country is it from? Reminds me of the BBC’s “Sign Language.”
OK, don’t think it’s called “sign language,” though it may be, but it’s signs from around the world in the same spirit as ThereIFixedIt.
it’s from czech republic . and yes, there could be written “rozhlas – hlasitost” , “osvětlení – vypnuto, na polovinu, na plno” and “teplota” – but.. would you undertand it?
Nearly full smile. And I guess the switch in the right regulates how cold or warm the smile is. Which would mean that the knob on the left regulates how loud the smile is?
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Actually, this is from a European train. I spent a month on these all over europe, never did figure out what all the knobs were for as they were always broken!
When you turn the lights off, you can set fire to the knob to find it later in the dark.
It’s a half-assed customer service rating system.
Wow, I’ve never seen a knob that liked being touched that badly.
Heaven help us if this is in a nuclear reactor facility…
So thats where the last mohican went…
At first I assumed it was a shower set-up. The dial on the left to set the pressure of the spray head and the hot and cold on the right. The lamp in the middle…made me wonder but mood lighting would be nice. The smiley? Uh for those of us women that own pulsing shower heads
So what is it again? lol
hey the smiley has a mohawk too!
Original : http://www.vagonweb.cz/fotogalerie/SK/ZSSK_Beer.php
Slovakia!
those controls look idiot proof… until some idiot stole a knob… good kludge.
Wooden Knob felt a little disoriented when his idea *popped* under his chin instead of over his head.
This is a Hungarian railway interior. I saw regulary the loudspeaker knob, but I have never heard any messages from them. The smiley knob is not an official version, that is a light control.
Confirmed, that’s a Hungarian InterCity train. PA system volume, lights dimmer and AC. In all cases I’ve seen, only lights work, and those only when enabled from somewhere else…
the loudspeaker works, i’ve tried it.
the ac is not ac, it’s heating. the cold setting is for turning off the heating.
well, let’s just say it’s an european train, they all look alike in almost all countries, as those cars are used mainly on trains that go long distances all over europe…
Wait, thats no knob….. thats a Battle Station