Ask delegates to tell if they used o-rings, and why not if they didn't. #1942
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| self.equipment = "Gen 2 Timer: 0 | |||
| Gen 3 Pro Timer: 0 | |||
| Gen 4 Pro Timer: 0 | |||
| Did you attach O-rings (or something similar) to the timers to prevent pressing buttons by accident? If not, please explain why. | |||
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Perhaps mention both buttons explicitly?
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Did you attach O-rings (or something similar) to both main timer buttons (power button, reset button) to prevent pressing them by accident? If not, please explain why.
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That suggests that people might attach O-rings to only one button. Why would or could someone do that?
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I could see someone just covering the reset button since all the talk is about "timer resets". I guess we wouldn't know for sure unless we explicitly ask about covering both of them.
Alternatively, we could ask a more generic question like: "Did you make any modifications to the timer? If you did, please explain what modifications you made, and if you did not, please explain why you did not".
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The power button also causes a reset. ;-)
I think we should aim to have a default answer (and ask if people deviated from that default), so that it's easy for Delegates to answer, and for a reader to see if it's the default answer.
I think O-rings (or similar) over both buttons is a good default, since that is a safe future state to aim for.
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Our gen 3 pro timers are equipped with only o ring on the reset button, basically because the power button is hard enough to reach.
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Hmm... I can't remember that. 😕
Anyway, although it's unlikely to reach the power button with your thumb when stopping, it can be pushed by a puzzle falling on the button. I think that's how at least some resets are caused.
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This conversation has convinced me that we should explicitly mention both the power button and the reset button. I've updated the PR with a new wording.
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Gen4 timers have the power button placed just like the reset button, so it might be good to cover both: |
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LGTM on the latest revision, by the way. |
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After talking with @Laura-O, we're going to approach this in a different way. Unfortunately, I'm just a little too busy to push on this, but I plan to pick up the torch again soon. |
What is that way? :-) |
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The new plan is to send out a survey to delegates just to get a sense (it doesn't have to be perfect) of who needs help getting o-rings. Then I'll work with the Gear Team to get those people o-rings. The open question is how to check how competitions are doing with actually using o-rings, which @Laura-O and I need to talk about. I've just been too busy to start that discussion with her. I plan to pick this back up over Thanksgiving. |
See thewca/wca-regulations#243.