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I'm really liking the mod. I guess the retro-future thing is accentuated by having an Igo-L with a vase-shaped drip tip on top of it... But if Jules Verne built a steam powered lunar submarine, this is what it would look like. Even the buttons look kind of like portholes. I think it's very charming, but in an unpretentious way.
[I hasten to clarify - I'm not actually a steampunk. My only previous concession to steam-punkiness is owning one cheapish 'vintage' style mechanical watch. I don't have anything against steampunks, I guess I'm just not a 'scene' person really]
One other thought has occurred to me - when you click and hold the plus and minus buttons together to get the resistance readout, why stop there? Why not enter an 'information' mode, where you click plus or minus to cycle between ohms, volts at selected wattage or watts at selected voltage (depending on setting, obviously), amps... Then you could click the fire button, or even just wait a few seconds, to escape back out of it.
I don't think that would be overly confusing, since it would be very easy to ignore for anyone who wasn't interested. And the chip is obviously capable of calculating that information, so I can't see how it could add to the cost. I suspect it's one of those emerging industry things, where they're still trying to settle on an optimal interface complexity. One of the main virtues of this mod is it's dead easy to use - I'm confident I could walk away, come back in six months, and not really have to think about what I was doing. They've even placed the etching intelligently - the plus and minus symbols are on the correct side of the buttons and far enough around for you to be able to see them when you're looking at the screen. Seems like a small thing, but it's surprising how often people get stuff like that wrong.
Oh well, it isn't a real complaint - just one of those things where you think "Well, if it can do A, why not let it do B too?'
I guess I'll post my thoughts about the IClears in a different thread, this seems more about the mod itself.
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I've now put the IClear back on, and it's started looking like some kind of weird 18th century scientific instrument (should be brass, naturally...). We can probably reasonably conclude that either a) what it looks like is highly dependent on the attached head, or b) it doesn't look like either of these things, and I just have an overly fertile imagination. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and wash the phlogiston out of my drip tip...
I'm really liking the mod. I guess the retro-future thing is accentuated by having an Igo-L with a vase-shaped drip tip on top of it... But if Jules Verne built a steam powered lunar submarine, this is what it would look like. Even the buttons look kind of like portholes. I think it's very charming, but in an unpretentious way.
[I hasten to clarify - I'm not actually a steampunk. My only previous concession to steam-punkiness is owning one cheapish 'vintage' style mechanical watch. I don't have anything against steampunks, I guess I'm just not a 'scene' person really]
One other thought has occurred to me - when you click and hold the plus and minus buttons together to get the resistance readout, why stop there? Why not enter an 'information' mode, where you click plus or minus to cycle between ohms, volts at selected wattage or watts at selected voltage (depending on setting, obviously), amps... Then you could click the fire button, or even just wait a few seconds, to escape back out of it.
I don't think that would be overly confusing, since it would be very easy to ignore for anyone who wasn't interested. And the chip is obviously capable of calculating that information, so I can't see how it could add to the cost. I suspect it's one of those emerging industry things, where they're still trying to settle on an optimal interface complexity. One of the main virtues of this mod is it's dead easy to use - I'm confident I could walk away, come back in six months, and not really have to think about what I was doing. They've even placed the etching intelligently - the plus and minus symbols are on the correct side of the buttons and far enough around for you to be able to see them when you're looking at the screen. Seems like a small thing, but it's surprising how often people get stuff like that wrong.
Oh well, it isn't a real complaint - just one of those things where you think "Well, if it can do A, why not let it do B too?'
I guess I'll post my thoughts about the IClears in a different thread, this seems more about the mod itself.
-edit
I've now put the IClear back on, and it's started looking like some kind of weird 18th century scientific instrument (should be brass, naturally...). We can probably reasonably conclude that either a) what it looks like is highly dependent on the attached head, or b) it doesn't look like either of these things, and I just have an overly fertile imagination. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and wash the phlogiston out of my drip tip...
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