Comments on: Puzzling signage, cont’d

By: jdgalt

jdgalt — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:52:53 +0000

Can someone bring the picture back?

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:55:26 +0000

“This is NOT a normal on-off switch – use it ONLY in case of Emergency!!”

This’s how I label most of my emergency Stop/Shutoff switches. makes more sense even though it uses more words. Sometimes terseness goes overboard and results in loss of true intent or meaning.

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:51:44 +0000

Ceci n’est pas une pipe either.

Bob

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:35:47 +0000

It’s an emergency shutoff, not a general-use shutoff. If you want to just deactivate the system then you use another button; the button in the photo safes the system rather than just putting it back to a neutral state.

It’s the difference between hitting the “off” switch and pulling out the plug.