That I never looked for, just the arrow.
I am unaware of any with multiple ports but there’s no icon for where to plug things in like there is a gas pump. Port locations are scattered. My Bolt is left front.
Edit: After I posted, I noticed the image is for UK vehicles.
Almost certainly on the same circuit. I’ve replaced outlets wired like that. The new GFI came with stickers to identify down-line outlets. In my case, those were the second outlet in the bathroom and the outlet on the back porch.
Looking at breaker box, it looks like it’s on a GFI. Odd that one outlet is a GFI but not the other. I’m really not concerned at all. Just seemed odd. Perhaps that’s what the electrician had, so he just dropped it in.
GFCI outlets cost more so I can see that the electrician used only one while still meeting code.
My problem is that they are always firmly attached to the side of the shower, which makes it impossible to take a bath ergonomically except if they also provide countertop bar soap and have a functional drain stopper. And even then I still have to stand up to get shampoo.
And for those of us who need glasses to read small print, one must first determine which dispenser is which before starting the shower.
Oh yes, and in light blue color on a grey background. Idiots.
In the break room at work we have some of those big insulated carafes for coffee. The one for “regular” coffee had a lever on top that pumps coffee out the dispenser when you press it down. It’s also got a handle which theoretically one should be able to use to carry a full carafe of coffee from the coffee maker over to the counter. Except that lever for dispensing coffee blocks the handle from reaching the upright position. To get the handle into the position you would need it in to actually pick up the carafe, you have to press the lever down, which would make coffee come out. I thought maybe there was a way to lock the lever in the down position before brewing a new pot, but if there is I can’t find it.
Hmm. I’ve seen lots of those. They all have a way to lock the pump handle down. Typically done as the worker is putting the carafe lid on after brewing into it. Pix?
Officially, taking pictures in the office is against the rules for security reasons, unless you have a camera permit from security (Gotta love the defense/aerospace industry).
But this one looks like the same model, or a very similar one. Yes, that “switch” near the base of the lever looks like it should lock the lever down, but when I tried it on the one we have here the switch wouldn’t budge. Maybe I was doing it wrong, or maybe our is broken?
Pampers is making, essentially, Pull-Ups for little babies. They do not have Velcro sides. They need to be put on like underwear. This means that the baby’s trousers, or whatever bottoms the child is wearing can’t just be pulled down, they must come all the way off. Also, shoes, if the child has any.
If the kid is in something that has snaps up and down both legs you can just open the snaps, but then you have the joy of snapping the kid back up-- great fun in the baby room of a preschool when 3 other kids are waiting to be changed.
If the kid has pooped, or gotten really soaking wet (like after a nap), you have to rip the sides to get them off. They don’t rip well.
Then, there is the “you don’t get to decide how snug to fit the waist” issue.
Pull-Ups are enough of a hassle (and don’t really help much with potty-training). Who thought of these?
That’s the lever all righty.
If it’s not broken you push the pump handle down flush with the cover then slide the chrome-colored lever fore or aft. If it won’t move it’s probably glued into position after a lifetime of 1 jillion pots of coffee and 3 washings. You can fiddle with a similar example in any 7-11 to see how they work properly.
I suspect that is probably it. Actually I am pretty sure the cleaning staff does clean them every evening; I’ve seen them do it when I was working late, but I’m pretty sure dumping out any remaining coffee and cleaning the inside it the extent of it. I doubt they ever touch the lever.
And I missed the edit window, but here’s what I was trying to add:
Ooooh, I figured it out. Ours is actually a little different from the one I linked to. The little lever near the base of the big lever is actually a little prop holding up the big lever. The big lever is spring loaded with the spring pushing the lever down towards the lid without the prop in place. To make the lever fold down flush with the lid you have to lift it up slightly, flip the prop up, and let it fall down. That’s why it wouldn’t budge earlier – I was already holding the lever flush with the lid, and they was preventing the prop from moving. The prop also seems to be what presses down on the pump to dispense coffee, so doing it this way allows you to move the lever down without dispensing any coffee. It’s actually a pretty clever design now that I understand how it works.
Yaay! Thanks for the explanation; I love learning about clever mechanisms.
I started a new job a few months ago. The company has an exercise room with a Peloton bike in it. I’ve used stationary bikes before; I appreciate the workout, but they’re just so damn boring. I figured I’d try the Peloton and see what all the fuss was about. Maybe it would change things up enough to hold my interest. So I bought a pair of earbuds and created an account.
The bike has been fine; the earbuds drive me nuts. They’re from JVC, nothing too fancy or expensive. Sometimes they pair with the bike just fine. Sometimes I start a workout and the bike thinks it’s already paired with the earbuds, but that never works. I have to return them to factory settings by pressing on one for 15 seconds until the light blinks three times, then put it in the case and press the other one, or something like that.
Tonight, nothing worked. First, I paired them with the bike, but only one worked. So I disconnected them. I tried resetting them, then they got in a state where they thought they were connected, but weren’t. The light on the one earbud would be on, or blinking slow, or fast. The resetting instructions I found online said to insert them in the case until the light turned on or off. It doesn’t sound like they know their own product very well.
So I gave up on the workout and came home fully prepared to reset my earbuds with a large rock. They weren’t expensive enough to be worth the aggravation. Then I thought “wait a minute, maybe all earbuds suck as much as the ones I bought.” There’s a limit to how well you can debug a connectivity issue when the entire user interface consists of three white lights.
So I put it to you, fellow dopers, do my dream earbuds exist? Maybe something with state-of-the-art, cutting edge features, like an on/off switch. My desires are pretty simple, I want earbuds…
Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that the interaction is so complicated. These were designed for the generation that thinks the pinacle of video gaming is memorizing up-down-up-down-left-semicolon-forwardslash-umlaut.
Its gone from stupidest product design to pretty clever.
Well, I’m very happy with my Bose QuietComfort earbuds. The UI speaks to you through the earbuds to tell you the connection state and what device it is connected to, so you’re not limited to blinking LEDs to tell you what’s going on. I have not had any such connection frustration as you describe. However, I would guess that they cost several times what you paid for your JVC earbuds. Which is probably not a coincidence.
It isnt alwaya an arrow. Sometimes it’s the diagram or icon of a gas pump, next to the gauge.
The flexible hose is drawn on either the left or right side of the icon, matching the filler cap on the left or rright side of the car.
Smoke alarm low battery warnings; typically these consist of a very brief chirp, repeated after some interval or tens of minutes or so; that’s fine and all, but in any kind of large or open-plan space, you’re going to want more than one smoke alarm, and batteries don’t run down at exactly the same rate.
So there you are in a space that has, say, three smoke alarms and something goes ‘chirp’; it’s too brief a sound to really get a directional fix on, so it’s just difficult to pinpoint which unit needs a new battery; you could go and stand near one of them, but how long is it to the next chirp? Half an hour? More? Less? Are you going to stand there and wait or try to remember to come back when it’s due, or time between the next chirp and the one after, so you can be in the right place on the subsequent chirp. It could be better.
And it would be easy; just make the things make two chirps, 30 seconds apart when the battery is low. You hear the first one and you walk to the unit you think is most likely and wait a few seconds, after which you know for sure if that’s the one that needs the battery - if it’s not, then on the next chirp you walk to a different unit and so on. Not perfect, but way better than one brief chirp every hour or whatever it is.