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June 30, 2003 06:00 AM
Broken: Coffee maker
Mike Boyink writes:
Attached are two pictures of my coffee maker. The designers choose the wrong color LEDs to indicate state.(Click the image to zoom in.)We're conditioned by traffic lights to associate green with "go", and red with "stop", but if I want the coffee maker to "go" (make coffee now) I have to make sure the red light is lit.
The coffee maker has three states:
-Not brewing (off)
-Brewing now (on)
-Set to brew when the timer goes off (Auto Start)
Actually, there is no burner as the maker brews directly into the insulated (read - never hot to the touch) caraffe,and the unit has the "pause and serve" feature, so it's actually been designed to be interacted with while brewing.
We have this coffee maker and I find it incredibly annoying that I have to press the select button twice (once to go past the auto-brew feature that I never use) in order to brew now. When we first got it, I would press the button once and would come back ten minutes later to no coffee.
There is a common explanation to this, in almost all electronics the power light is red so all the red meens is that function is on.
There is a common explanation to this, in almost all electronics the power light is red so all the red light means is that function is on.
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Presumably after you've set it to start at some future time (green light on) the red light goes on to let you know it's brewing. So this kind of makes sense:
Green light: set to GO, everything's ok
Red light: it's brewing now! Don't touch it! It's hot! If you mess with it you'll screw up the pot of coffee, moron!
I kinda like it ;-)
Posted by: Charlie Richmond at November 6, 2003 09:00 AM