Warning: This is possibly my first forum rant, so it may not be up to the standard of the rants seen frequently here at the EEVblog.
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People never cease to amaze me on how incredibly stupid they can be. I am usually one to give people the benefit of the doubt. However, there are sometimes when you just wanna smack someone and knock some sense into them.
This is a different story. This product had to have been checked by multiple people, designed and reviewed by multiple people, and yet, they all collectively were utterly stupid. Take a look at this.
Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me??!!! Take another look, the output adjustment knobs are laid out in a sensible fashion, 'A' on the left, then 'B' on the right. Perfect, that's how most people think, you know, in alphabetical order. Oh but wait, look at the outputs they control.
You probably just laughed and got somewhat irritated when you saw that picture. What kind of a person does it take to think that its okay to 1) screw alphabetical order and put 'B' before 'A' and 2) Not put it in the same order as the actual adjustment knobs. It would be a completely different scenario if both the adjustment and the outputs were out of alphabetical order. The most I'd think of that would be' oh that's weird, I wonder why they did that...." But this just doesn't make any sense, that the outputs would not even be in the same order of the adjustment knobs!
Also, not only did the designer(s) say this is okay, but the managers, graphic artists who designed the panel, and reviewers of the product think that this was acceptable.
Now, if this is common industry practice then I take back all of my above statements, but surely no industry is dumb enough to think this is logical.
I think I will call BK Precision tomorrow and find out what the engineers were smoking when they designed this crap.
So, what do ya think, is it just me over-reacting, or did BK Precision really screw this thing up?
Joshua
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