In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by HPsquared on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:25PM (#39171409)

Huh, I'd always considered that toggle switches are "down is on". (UK resident).

That way it's the same as a standard rocker switch (the direction of rotation is the same).

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by ummonk on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:49PM (#39171587)

I’d expect a rocker switch in America to also be the same as our light switches - pressed at the top for on, pressed at the bottom for off.

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by nerdponx on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:46PM (#39171889)

That's generally a rocker switches work on devices in America, e.g. guitar amps: the side that is pressed is "on" or selected/enabled.

Last time I was in Europe (Portugal), I remember having a lot of difficulty making sense of the light switches, but it was one of those apartments where you have two or three light switches controlling the same fixture, which is always confusing.

Still, I think the American light switches are actually pretty good. Maybe one day we will get a Technology Connections video about light switches around the world.

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by DrSAR on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:50PM (#39171900)

Until you encounter a switch that's part of a three-way switch arrangement where up can be on or off depending on the position of the other switch in the circuit.

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by Izkata on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:23AM (#39178143)

I've lived with these my whole life, in every place I've lived, plus with one or two switches that were sideways, so the first time I'd ever heard "up is on" was in a comment thread like this a few months ago. I didn't think there was any sort of standard, it's just always been "flip the switch if it's not currently what you want".

This is in the US.

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by nerdponx on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:32PM (#39180256)

It's still "on" in the sense of the circuit being closed.

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by nerdponx on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:00PM (#39171942)

In this case I mean "down" as in "the long part is pointing toward the ground", not "some button-like thing is depressed towards the wall".

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by Spare_account on Monday January 29, 2024 @05:12AM (#39174682)

Agreed, in the UK:

- 'angled towards the ground' is 'On' (https://cdn.aws.toolstation.com/images/141020-UK/800/10481.j...)

- 'angled towards the ceiling' is 'Off' (https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Images/Products/size_3/MKK4870....)

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by nerdponx on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:40AM (#39176095)

But that's completely backwards from a normal rocker switch!

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Re:In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by perilunar on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:53AM (#39176900)

In Aus most light switches are rocker switches that are also "down = on".

In aviation (and old cars) switches are usually toggle switches with "up = on".

Strangely I'm ok with both. I think of rocker switches as opposite to toggle switches automatically.

- https://www.google.com/search?q=rocker+switch

- https://www.google.com/search?q=toggle+switch

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