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June 30, 2003 06:00 AM

Broken: Coffee maker

 Mike Boyink writes:

Attached are two pictures of my coffee maker. The designers choose the wrong color LEDs to indicate state.

We're conditioned by traffic lights to associate green with "go", and red with "stop", but if I want the coffee maker to "go" (make coffee now) I have to make sure the red light is lit.

The coffee maker has three states:
-Not brewing (off)
-Brewing now (on)
-Set to brew when the timer goes off (Auto Start)

(Click the image to zoom in.)

Comments:

Presumably after you've set it to start at some future time (green light on) the red light goes on to let you know it's brewing. So this kind of makes sense:

Green light: set to GO, everything's ok

Red light: it's brewing now! Don't touch it! It's hot! If you mess with it you'll screw up the pot of coffee, moron!

I kinda like it ;-)

Posted by: Charlie Richmond at November 6, 2003 09:00 AM

Actually, there is no burner as the maker brews directly into the insulated (read - never hot to the touch) caraffe,and the unit has the "pause and serve" feature, so it's actually been designed to be interacted with while brewing.

Posted by: Boyink at March 10, 2004 08:11 AM

We have this coffee maker and I find it incredibly annoying that I have to press the select button twice (once to go past the auto-brew feature that I never use) in order to brew now. When we first got it, I would press the button once and would come back ten minutes later to no coffee.

Posted by: Paul Schmitter at August 26, 2004 04:52 PM

There is a common explanation to this, in almost all electronics the power light is red so all the red meens is that function is on.

Posted by: The Electrician at December 14, 2004 05:09 PM

There is a common explanation to this, in almost all electronics the power light is red so all the red light means is that function is on.

Posted by: The Electrician at December 14, 2004 05:10 PM

Is there an off button?

LAST!

Posted by: joe at May 7, 2006 11:57 AM

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