My series 5 Braun shaver has three lights. The green ones are used for charging but, recently, a yellow light has come on. The manual doesn't address this clearly. Does anyone know what the orange light means? Sincerely. Ed Hayes
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I'm not seeing anything in the manual either. Have you tried asking Braun directly?
Are you sure it's orange and not red? Red means low charge/battery level.
Also, which exact model is it? There are quite a few of them in the Series 5 line.
Are you sure it's orange and not red? Red means low charge/battery level.
Also, which exact model is it? There are quite a few of them in the Series 5 line.
On my Norelco, the yellow/orange light means it is low on charge, and it is time to recharge. Of course the Braun certainly may be different.
Could that light tell you to replace the foil head and cutter unit? Braun tells me that a light will go on at about 18 months to remind me to spend some money for the parts to ensure continued high quality shaving - their approximate wording 
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)Orange means "I'm going to cut you." It happened to me. One day, shaving happily with my Braun, I felt a sting. I thought I'd pulled a hair. Instead a thin line of blood began to show: A sharp bit of the foil had separated and was sticking up enough to cut me.
I bought a Norelco the next day.
I bought a Norelco the next day.
Success is mine: I got out my old eye piece from a WW11 Nordon bomb sight that I bought at a war surplus store when I was a teenager. The two green lights are labeled for charging and charged. The yellow/orange light indicates it needs hygienic cleaning, using the cleaner device and below is a small round light which shows a shaving foil, which I assume means replace cutter & foil. Ed
WW11 Nordon bomb sight??
A Nordon (sp) bomb sight eyepiece was the eye piece similar to a telescope eye piece.
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Norden bombsight
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The Norden bombsight at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This example does not have the associated autopilot attached.
Enola Gay bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden Bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of Little Boy.
The Norden bombsight was a tachymetric bombsight used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United States Air Force in the Korean and the Vietnam Wars to aid the crew of bomber aircraft in dropping bombs accurately. Key to the operation of the Norden were two features; an analog computer that constantly calculated the bomb's trajectory based on current flight conditions, and a linkage to the bomber's autopilot that let it react quickly and accurately to changes in the wind or other effects.
Together, these features allowed for unprecedented accuracy in day bombing from high altitudes; in testing the Norden demonstrated a circular error probable (CEP) of 23 metres (75 ft),[clarification needed] an astonishing performance for the era. This accuracy allowed direct attacks on ships, factories, and other point targets. Both the Navy and the AAF saw this as a means to achieve war aims through high-altitude bombing, without resorting to area bombing, as proposed by European forces. To achieve these aims, the Norden was granted the utmost secrecy well into the war, and was part of a then-unprecedented production effort on the same scale as the Manhattan Project. Carl L. Norden, Inc. ranked 46th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[1]
In practice it was not possible to achieve this level of accuracy in combat conditions, with the average CEP in 1943 being 370 metres (1,200 ft). Both the Navy and Air Forces had to give up on the idea of pinpoint attacks during the war. The Navy turned to dive bombing and skip bombing to attack ships, while the Air Forces developed the lead bomber concept to improve accuracy. Nevertheless, the Norden's reputation as a pin-point device lived on, due in no small part to Norden's own advertising of the device after secrecy was reduced during the war.
The Norden saw some use in the post-World War II era, especially during the Korean War. Post-war uses were greatly reduced due to the introduction of radar-based systems, but the need for accurate daytime attacks kept it in service for some time. The last combat use of the Norden was in the US Navy's VO-67 squadron, which used them to drop sensors onto the Ho Chi Minh Trail as late as 1967. The Norden remains one of the best known bombsights of all time.
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The Norden bombsight at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This example does not have the associated autopilot attached.
Enola Gay bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden Bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of Little Boy.
The Norden bombsight was a tachymetric bombsight used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United States Air Force in the Korean and the Vietnam Wars to aid the crew of bomber aircraft in dropping bombs accurately. Key to the operation of the Norden were two features; an analog computer that constantly calculated the bomb's trajectory based on current flight conditions, and a linkage to the bomber's autopilot that let it react quickly and accurately to changes in the wind or other effects.
Together, these features allowed for unprecedented accuracy in day bombing from high altitudes; in testing the Norden demonstrated a circular error probable (CEP) of 23 metres (75 ft),[clarification needed] an astonishing performance for the era. This accuracy allowed direct attacks on ships, factories, and other point targets. Both the Navy and the AAF saw this as a means to achieve war aims through high-altitude bombing, without resorting to area bombing, as proposed by European forces. To achieve these aims, the Norden was granted the utmost secrecy well into the war, and was part of a then-unprecedented production effort on the same scale as the Manhattan Project. Carl L. Norden, Inc. ranked 46th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[1]
In practice it was not possible to achieve this level of accuracy in combat conditions, with the average CEP in 1943 being 370 metres (1,200 ft). Both the Navy and Air Forces had to give up on the idea of pinpoint attacks during the war. The Navy turned to dive bombing and skip bombing to attack ships, while the Air Forces developed the lead bomber concept to improve accuracy. Nevertheless, the Norden's reputation as a pin-point device lived on, due in no small part to Norden's own advertising of the device after secrecy was reduced during the war.
The Norden saw some use in the post-World War II era, especially during the Korean War. Post-war uses were greatly reduced due to the introduction of radar-based systems, but the need for accurate daytime attacks kept it in service for some time. The last combat use of the Norden was in the US Navy's VO-67 squadron, which used them to drop sensors onto the Ho Chi Minh Trail as late as 1967. The Norden remains one of the best known bombsights of all time.
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