Is that because of requirements or regulations, or just a traditional and preference thing?
Laying in bed at 4 this morning, I was wondering about the preponderance of push button light switches in Switzerland. I don't remember ever seeing rocker or toggle switches here.
Interesting question, and one that hadn't occurred to me.
Now I'm thinking about it in the context of the enlarged chalet we're in here, it's clear that whatever caused the change just have been quite a long time ago. There are perhaps for or five old-fashioned rocker switches in the whole house, and these are all in rooms that were not changed when the main modifications were done, which took place around 1992.
So those rooms which formed part of the original 1908 chalet were presumably rewired at some point in the 1960s or 70s, as the cabling and switches are consistent with that era, with rocker light switches, but anything done post 1992 has push-button switches only.
Rocker switches are still available so I doubt it's any regulation. Guess people (or architects) just prefer it that way.
The change must have happened in the 70s/80s from what I see around me.
Is that all you have to do in bed at 4 in the morning?
All questions have been asked now. We can close EF.
Is a chap not allowed to be curious about the world around him?
I think it's stayed that way for sometime now as Feller in Horgen seem to have almost the complete market for new builds and renovations and they have push-buttons.
My question would be: why are switches and sockets so so expensive? That's probably down to Feller too.
I like how the switches are large and at waist height (mostly!). I can put the light on when I'm pissed just by thrashing at the wall in the general direction.
....you too ?
Worrying needlessly about trivial things is what 4am is for.
And at Feller we also find when the switch from rocker switches to push buttons happened: End of 1960 https://www.feller.ch/de/Produktangebot/Standard
But the rocker switches were installed even in the seventies.
The flat I lived in in ZH had rocker switches, fuse box was real fuses, I suspect the Electrical Instalation was in the 60's. It passed the 20 year inspection when I was living there.
this thread made me realise how much i dislike those ugly 'standard' swiss switches.
The Swiss switches are a lot easier to turn on and off with your elbow than rocker switches.
and knees...
full face rockers are also easily elbowed and give a nice indication of status when you have half a dozen of them together.
Yeah, the same was true of the studio we rented in Basel, now I think about it. No circuit breakers, just four screw-in fuses in the entrance area, but also insufficient rating to even power a normal domestic kettle (which would just blow the fuse). And rocker switches except for the bed/living room which had two switches off the push-button variety which had presumably been added at a later stage.
I'd like to hope that is since been updated - certainly the whole place was well overdue for a refit, but the rent stayed at just 640 pm for the whole 15 years or so that we had it, and it wasn't like we were actually living there, so we never complained.
My question. Why are there no door knobs, only door handles?
Probably fused at 5 amps, which is why you could not use a kettle. I saw a couple of places like that in Basel Lichtstrasse.
Don't know if it applies to Switzerland, but a few countries require handles for disabled accessibility and safety reasons.
(I believe, Canada (or some parts of it) mandates door knobs to stop bears visiting)
Now I look at them on your link, I have seen the fugly rockers* in my old Ciba (RIP ) office. But yeah, it was pretty old.
*Rockers are a Mod's deadly enemy