Re:Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
by beachy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:42PM
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You are probably right, but I feel like a gigantic dashboard like that could well use 700W in just its own lighting.
Re:Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
by jacquesm on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:57PM
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That's true, but I would not expect it to be in a place where there was much difference between day and night lighting to begin with.
Re:Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
by RavuAlHemio on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:00AM
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I know a few things about German signal boxes, and I doubt the Polish ones will be too different in this regard.
Railway signals have a “daytime” and a lower “nighttime” intensity to make sure that the driver sees the red signal in the summer sun, but doesn’t get blinded by the same red signal on their final run of the day at midnight. The switching between these intensities is done on the signaling panel and I assume that’s what the big switch is for.
Re:Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
by jacquesm on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:47AM
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Yes, that is exactly what I thought it would be for.
Re:Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
by garaetjjte on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:44AM
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No, these two elements are not related. Day/night switch is for panel backlight. Current meter indicates current drawn by rail switch motors.
I think we can answer that with 'yes, it changed the operation of the system. The indicator next to it is labeled in Amperes and 30 Amps is a lot of current. depending on the driving voltage at 24 V (pretty common for control panels like this one) that's 700W give or take and if it is a line voltage (220 V in poland at the time) that 6.6KW.