Re: R8014 - R8216 Colours?

Wolf K. wrote:
Chris wrote:
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[Hornby] could have colour coded the terminals the same as the wires on the point motors and it would then be intuitive which wires go where.

Chris


Oh, good grief, Chris, you're expecting engineers to think like ordinary people.

:-)
Just to be consistent as they gone to the trouble of colour coding cables from the point motor. Apple manage to pull it off for a lot of their products. As they are aiming at newbies its that much more important they get the design right I would think :) As opposed to engineering something that is semi-compliant to a standard ;) Notice its the designers who got the terminal markings wrong not the engineers as opposed to the designers getting the hardware looking nice and engineers botching the engineering.

Chris

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