Talk:Dead man's switch

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[edit] Please add

Please edit this sentence "Typically, the controller handle was a horizontal bar that is rotated to apply the required power for the train." to indicate along which axisthis bar is rotated. Is it turned around its shortest axis (like twirling a baton), or is it simply twisted along the long axis (like revving a motorcycle)?

Many treadmills carry this (optional) feature these days. I'm not sure if that deserves mention, so I'm suggesting it here. 74.134.229.46 00:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bugs

I suspect Wikipedia is having problems. The history shows that I blanked the page, but I did not do this; I was trying to fix a typo. It also gave a couple fake "editing conficts"; the last was genuine (reverting the "blanking" that I "did"), but the first apparently was not. What's going on?

--Furrykef 06:55, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Strange. You may want to report the bug so the developers can figure out what happened: a string of page-blanking glitches could easily be mistaken for vandalism. --67.70.75.211 07:06, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Should penalty switch, vigilance control, dead-man's switch and dead-man's control be merged? They are very similar. Andrew pmk 03:16, 23 May 2005 (UTC)


Yes, definitely. Go ahead and do it, please. Simon A. 11:28, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Definitely. Also pilot valve. - Omegatron 23:50, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

  • Which one should be used as the main article name? I'm not a native speaker, but dead man's switch sounds best to me. Obli (Talk) 02:24, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Dead Man's Switch is the one I remember most easily. --Alvestrand 01:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
      • Done! Obli (Talk) 21:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Is this the same as a kill switch? - Shinglor 20:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with page

To whomever is updating this page:

You need to talk about Dead Man's Switch in regards to its application to nuclear warfare.

There is a link from the story 'Nuclear Strategy'.

Please.

[edit] deadmans' on trams in France

Hello, I am the one that put an external link on this page and it's been there for a while, but no information from it has yet been put into the article, could someone (please) do it?Myrtone@Dead man's switch.com.au 11:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Alerter"

Regarding the edits concerning the word "alerter": I know that Microsoft Train Simulator uses the term, and they seem to refer to something similar to a dead man's switch. --Kabelleger 21:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Maybe someone has a better image than the current one? I had to stare at the image for half a minute to figure out that it was a foot-pedal on a carpeted floor. If there is an image that illustrates it more obviously, that would be great. DancingMan (talk) 00:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it really that ? I couldnt get anything at all. I hate incomprehensible images. Could someone get a better image as the main one, possibly keep this image as secondary and add a better caption. I'll message the original poster of the image.Machete97 (talk) 14:01, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm the person who made the image... Had to do it with an old mobile phone camera, so my apologies for the poor quality. Should anyone have a better picture, please replace the current one with the new (better) picture. I just don't like articles without pictures, so I add them whenever I can. Even if their quality is so poor... Erik1980 (talk) 15:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The picture quality isn't the problem, its just unclear what it is actually a picture of - it's incomprehensible. Machete97 (talk) 22:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)