Timeline for Fan speed switch: why OFF :: HIGH :: MED :: LOW?
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 15:10 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 5, 2018 at 19:21 | comment | added | David Richerby | My cooktop hood fan has four separate buttons for off, low, medium, high and you can start it by pressing any one of the three "not-off" buttons. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 9:46 | comment | added | Sanchises | The gas burner settings are made so that you can't accidentally turn the cooker off when trying to achieve a low setting. The difference between just-on and just-off is harder to distinguish than full-on and full-off. I would not be surprised if the same reasoning applies to fans. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 8:54 | comment | added | Chris H | The gas burners are because ignition is more reliable at high power (conceptually similar to the fans), and the flame-out sensor needs a bit of warming up, which can take a long time on low. My cooker hood extractor has discrete settings and can be left on low with a separate on switch - just as well as high is deafening | |
| Nov 4, 2018 at 2:12 | history | answered | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |