On 31/10/2017 09:43, NY wrote:
"Thomas Prufer" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:43:29 -0700 (PDT),
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On Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 12:00:26 PM UTC+1, Mark Carver wrote:
A friend is puzzled by a symbol on his new boiler's control panel.

It shows a Top Hat and Ladder ? !

See pictu-

http://www.markyboy.net/Top-hat+ladder.jpg

Why, and what does it all mean ?

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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

What the absolute HELL is this top hat and ladder? WOW, I mean, its
bad enough we don't have any heating, whats worse is we can't
understand a thing thats going on because were not in the monopoly
game. Why? I can't understand, I am not a monopoly sized human, nor
thimble, nor boot, nor battle ship. Please send help, SOS.

This typifies everything that is bad about icons. I'm sure it was very
obvious to the person who designed the icons that a top hat and a ladder
"obviously" signify whatever it is that they signify. But I haven't a
clue. Maybe there's a vague association between a ladder and a tradesman
- as in "don't do this yourself, get a skilled heating engineer". What's
the significance of the rocket that's been crossed-out (above the "-").
And the person symbol - what is the meaning of that in the context of a
boiler? The circle with a triangle inside (top display) is probably the
timer, but what's the double-triangle to its right?

I have no problem with well-known icons like the play/ff/rew/pause icons
on tape recorders, CD players etc; the petrol pump symbol on a car's
fuel gauge; - and + for decreasing and increasing a quantity. But there
are many icons where I can't even work out what the icon depicts, never
mind what it signifies.

I'd like to see greater use made of words - maybe in addition to icons.

Be careful what you wish for, Vaillant in general tend to go for rather
Germanic English at times. For example, low primary system pressure on
the boiler is reported on the remote weather compensator / prog stat
with the elegant "service heat generator" message ;-)


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Cheers,

John.

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