I prefer my dials in base 16, my amp goes to F.
Just for the record… it has to do with practicality.
the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn’t go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.
Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second
At the 11 o’clock position, I think they mean. That’s a bit arbitrary tho
Even the 11 clock position makes no sense, most amps will go from 8 to 4.
Edit, I see what they did. In the picture they used 7 to 5 o’clock as min/max, (which is essentially the same as my 8-4). For some reason they adapted the o’clock numbers to the dial number which is not helpful.
The o’clock numbers are meant to be a static reference point with 12 always at the top most position. You don’t bend the clock scale to match the knob min/max.
That’s not the history of that thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
Here’s the original for higher quality
It would be better to use .PCX or .TGA
The Digital Dark Age is real. At best, we are carving out runes out in a language the future will no longer understand.
What do you have stored on your Zip drives and DAT tapes? Because not only are we carving runes but in fact we are chiselling them into sandstone.
Paper writing will last vastly longer than most digital archive formats. If the data is not actually lost, the devices to read them will be. If we somehow read the data off, it will be incomprehensible gibberish. The file formats could eventually be decoded I suppose, like hieroglyphics. Unless of course they are encrypted….
500 years from now, there will be less information about what we were doing day to day than there is for things that happened hundreds of years ago. If anything is left, it will be the “official” record. In other words, all that will be left are lies.
The difference between engineering and sales engineering
I feel like the last one is a marketer, not a smart engineer.
