- November 21st, 2021, 5:43 pm#4960992
As for just picking up where the switches were left once pack power is flipped on, that again would depend on whether you want the sequence to serve as a safety function. It kind of makes sense that the sequence would matter as a safely function to guys like Egon and Ray. They likely would have built that safety logic in so that if the pack were powered up and the switches were in disarray, you’d have to flip them all to off and the pack would have to recognize them going on in the right sequence again in order to enable the wand.
One time wrote: ↑November 21st, 2021, 2:23 pm Actually the Afterline wand start up sequence could be explained.Except the upper and lower switches were not already in the on position. Phoebe flips them on after the “Activate” switch. A couple of less prominent lights blink to indicate power, but the bar graph and vent lights don’t come on till after that so there’s nothing to figure out here, other than if “activate” is like a gun safety, why doesn’t the sequence matter when other sources indicate sequence does matter?
So all lights on the wand are off although both the lower and upper toggles are activated (in up position). Then Phoebe flips up the activate switch and the lights come on.
Eventhough people admit this is contrary to the operation of the Hasbro and Matty wands, it could be like this:
-The pack had been on with both pack switch and the three wand switches on
-The pack switch was turned off, disabling all power to the wand, no matter its switches
-The wand -Activate- switch was turned off. (flipped to rear)
Now the pack switch was flipped to on
The wand now has power although the -activate- switch is in off position.
As soon as the -activate- switch on the wand is flipped and the cyclotron is started. it now displays the fact that the upper and lower switches were both in -on- position. I.e. bargraph and vent lights come on. Like in the Afterlife scene.
One time wrote: ↑November 21st, 2021, 2:23 pm It's the interaction of the staggering of the pack afterlife switch and the wand switches that needs to be worked out.I agree the pack switch which would be the master switch, putting the wand in an initialized state. I’m also not surprised that there were one or two lights blinking on the wand once the pack was turned on, because you would expect that there would be some sort of initial powered state (I actually proposed that the Hasbro pack should do something like this in one of my earlier comments). Such a ready state couldn’t be reflected on a standalone wand since there was no pack to power it up first (Unless Hasbro or Mattel had provided a hidden switch to simulate pack power, which maybe they should have).
It looks like the pack switch is a master switch of some sort. The wand switches just pick up where they left off, as soon as they get power from the pack.
It makes sense. Equipment like that would not store the main power unit in something small like the wand. It would be in the pack.
As for just picking up where the switches were left once pack power is flipped on, that again would depend on whether you want the sequence to serve as a safety function. It kind of makes sense that the sequence would matter as a safely function to guys like Egon and Ray. They likely would have built that safety logic in so that if the pack were powered up and the switches were in disarray, you’d have to flip them all to off and the pack would have to recognize them going on in the right sequence again in order to enable the wand.
One time wrote: ↑November 21st, 2021, 2:23 pm I'm almost thinking Jason changed the scene last minute from the Hasbro wand start up sequence to the theatrical release to pre-empt something Hasbro would do with this pack. Maybe that's why he filmed both sequences.I can see that for the wand ready state, but it doesn’t explain the sudden disregard for wand switch sequencing, unless the wand switch sequence never mattered and Hasbro and Mattel (and others who have written on this and made videos) are wrong, which of course could be the case - though it actually makes more sense that the sequence should matter for safety.
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