Take OMRON CPM1A as an example, the changing setting value methods in which we use analog input potentiometer, dial switch and push-switch are introduced.

以OMRON CPM1A为例，介绍了用模拟输入电位器、拨码开关和按钮等方法改变定时器的设定值。

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Richard Haass, former State Department official and head of the Council on Foreign Relations, may have put it best when he suggested that what we need here is a dial, not a switch.

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Turning a dial rather than flipping a switch allows for nuance and makes consensus decision making possible.

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The topmost section features a physical volume dial that also serves as a mute switch when pushed, surrounded by a circular cluster of LEDs (for clockwise-flowing level indication) and then a secondary outer ring of capacitive buttons and LED indicators.

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