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[Closed] Soviet control rooms

 kcr
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I visited Chapelcross nuclear power station on a school trip, and the control room looked a bit like some of those Soviet photos. I remember a lot of bakelite control boards with lit up glass panels.


 
Posted : 15/01/2018 12:15 am
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The advent of a digital screen with 20 or so traces has made things a lot easier

I've been trying to find a picture of a Shackleton cockpit (might have been a Nimrod or something) "in use" as they had ISTR all the engine dials "wrongly" aligned so that the pilot could see at a glance everything was ticketty-boo.

In other words, at standard temps and pressures all the dials' arrows pointed to 12 o'clock and without reading or even really seeing the readouts the crew would know there was a problem.

Anything that requires interpretation or more clarity could kill you.


 
Posted : 15/01/2018 8:46 am
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