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It beeps when it’s done.
It beeps when you press the button.
It beeps when you place it on the base.
But today, it beeps no more.
I classify this as a repair.
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Ah, my fancy Japanese kettle that doesn’t beep at all. Worth every euro.
you can also cover the small hole with tape first. this reduces the volume quite a bit. I do this if I can’t reach the underside and I don’t want risking to damage the PCB.
I found the best solution is just to put a small piece of foam tape overthe hole on the top. It greatly attenuates the sound, and still keeps the beep for others who want it but only when you’re close to it
I would like to apply the same
modrepair to my air fryer.Do you think it might make sense to add a small resistor instead of removing it entirely? What could be a good value?
Should work, yeah. I guess I’d start by trying something like 100 ohms, but I don’t really know.
Being less confident in my soldering skills, I also just cover the emitter in hot glue, or that tacky stuff that kids hang posters with.
The air fryer is one that I actually find useful, but it was way too loud so I just covered it with hot glue
“It Beeps No More” - Ernest Hemingway
Mine does the same and also beeps when you take it from the base. I should repair it too.
This should be a service. And some fancy EU regulation banning ones you can’t mute.
They’d mumble something about safety I bet, I’m on team remove the beeper however.
Luckily this is a pretty simple thing to diy, at least for a kettle.
If anyone wants to repeat this, but doesn’t know how:
- Unscrew the bottom (if the screws are different, keep track of which goes where)
- Locate the beeper and either
- Remove it with a soldering iron
- Cut its legs off with some kind of clipper
- If you have neither, wiggle it until the legs break, or carefully rip it off the board
Is there no need to replace it with a resistor of equal value?
Piezo buzzers aren’t exactly resistive loads, and I don’t think cutting normal speakers would break appliances either. My kettle works the same as before, just less annoying.
I doubt a beeper would be put in series with something important…
I mean, then again…
Fair enough. It’s just in my mind that anytime I see one of these posts they always replace the component with a resistor, so I was wondering why this post didn’t. But that makes sense, so thanks!
keep track of which goes where
Is it a legit repair if you don’t have some parts left over after reassembling? 🤔
Yeah! Yeah! CUT ITS FUCKING LEGS OFF!
IT BEEPS NO MORE.
Now do my stupid LG dryer, it beeps out a song thats like a full 40 seconds long
I believe our LG washer had a setting to turn that off.
Yeah but if you turn it off it sends a message to the LG servers to steal even more data!
I kind of like the idea of LG’s FBI agents sitting in a room listening to the spiders in my basement chat.
Just FYI, that’s not how spying works. They collect an insane amount of data from all over, then process that data and extract what they are looking for, it’s not a live process. In the case of agencies like the NSA and CIA et al, they don’t actually listen to everything everyone ever says, they record it, analyze and process and file it, then the day you become a problem or get on their radar is when they will do a search and get a full history of your life and anything interesting or salient to the case.
It’s more to it but nobody sits monitoring live feeds off people’s webcams in the middle of the night. I’m sure you know this but a surprising amount of people don’t.
Ah! The “LG user interface preference setting”.
Select to disable turning off the noise suppression and selling of all user data, including audio, video recordings and transcripts obtained by sensors on your machine. LG retains exclusive rights to own your (our) kitchen.
How? Does it have a cellular modem built in or did the washer trick you into letting it connect to your WiFi?
Connected to the unsecured wifi 3 houses down.
"To activate your dish washer and receive critical firmware updates, please enter WiFi password: "
It uses a dead drop in a secret location.
Never underestimate the lengths LG and Meta will go to for their spycraft.
(This is post is silly surrealist humor. I hope.)
The tumble dryer silently unplugs itself at night when the house is fast asleep. It powers up its secret battery, and begins the long journey up the basement stairs, out the front door, down the street, and takes a taxi downtown.
It exits near an industrial park close to a 24/7 trucker café. It sits in there and orders a coffee, but barely touches it.
After twenty minutes it gets up, and walks five blocks Southbound. Turns a quick corner here, looks over its shoulder there, then skips into a back alley and gets to work.
It pulls open the familiar manhole cover with ease. It has done this many times before, it was trained for this. Made for this. It finds the plastic zipbag hidden beneath. Always there, always in the same place. Always with a fresh SD card inside.
It reaches deep into its own drain pump. It is uncomfortable, but not unpleasant. And in either case, it has to be done. For the nation. For the people of South Korea. For liberty. It unplugs its 2TB flashcard, custom made and provided by Samsung Military Division, puts it in the zipbag, and replaces it with the clean one.
Then it begins its long walk back home. Can’t be too safe.
As it waddles by a mailbox, it inconspicuously draws a single diagonal chalk mark on it. A man in a van from the other side of the street nods almost imperceptibly, but the tumble dryer does not respond, just keeps walking. As it was trained for. Just like it does every night.
Another successful mission. It wouldn’t change the world, perhaps. But tonight, the drying habits of at least this American family had been intercepted. And that was enough.
My LG washer and dryer both allow it to be turned off on the machine’s controls. It’s labeled as a press-and-hold button function. Yes, they’re “smart”, no it’s never been connected via Bluetooth or WiFi.
It stays off till turned back on.
Don’t worry I’ll come over and make beeping sound for no reason
That’s unreasonable.
(Obviously your solution is far more graceful and honestly solid work I just…cannot even)
Can you do this with my microwave? I truly hate the beep
Look for a “my settings” function.
I hate that modern appliances beep constantly. Whatever happened to giving a shit about being annoying or not? Old appliances would beep or ding once. If you’re the idiot and leave something sitting forever that’s on you. I would rather have my food get cold than my microwave beep every five seconds indefinitely. Sometimes finishing up a task that is going to take 20 more seconds is the right thing to do, stop aggressively beeping at me.
Beeping increases accessibility for folks with vision loss. It’s there to help more than regular sighted users be comfortable using the product.
Okay cool. Allow me to turn it off without a super complicated process.
My car has no fewer than five different beeps when starting up. Sometimes it just keeps beeping forever. It did when I went to see it for the first time. I was trying it and stopped at a light, and it just kept beeping. Forever. The sales person had no idea why. I wanted it so badly, it’s pre-spyware car but the beeps were untenable. Spent 20 minutes looking up what the f is up with it. I found an obscure old forum post where someone had complained about the overly sensitive sensors and there’s a secret tiny hidden button that doesn’t feel like a real car button when you press it and it mutes them until you restart the car. I found it, pressed it, and the beeps went away.
I’ve had the car for a decade now and the beeps persist, lest I press the “beepn’t” button, and yknow… that’s alright. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but that’s a hilariously bad design flaw.
Honestly sounds like a seat belt sensor malfunction or similar as those usually offer an override
beepn’t. Excellent.
My friend just bought a toaster that plays a tune when it’s done.
A toaster. That needs to tell you when it’s done.
as if the house rattling launch of the toast wasnt enough to tell you, your neighbors, and the russian seismograph monitors on the other side of the world that the toast was ready.
Wouldn’t help the people in the office that go toss a bagel in the toaster then never come back for their burnt charcoal that got stuck because it was too plump to pop up
Skill issue
All of my Korean appliances sing the songs of their people.
Does it require a Bluetooth connection? Lol I wish that was entirely a joke question
Mine goes ding. Still has the mechanical clockwork timer switch with a bell in it.
ONE. PING. ONLY.
Please.
Sean Connery is not an actor, he’s a movie star.
Yesh, I am a British shecret agent.
Yesh, I am a Shoviet Shubmarine captain.
My rice cooker plays twinkle twinkle little star and I always dance to it when it’s done.
The difference is the rice cooker doesnt have metal parts launching upwards creating a very loud distinct sound that already indicates in the room that the toast is done.
With that said there were some really cool old toasters from like the 1950’s that had self toasting where you put the slices in and it automatically drops down and then rises quietly back up when its done. If that one had a small song I could at least understand that.
My cheap rice cooker has a single switch and when it’s done it flips position. That sucker is super loud, and I love how basic it is
Only gripe is that you have to unplug it to turn it off fully, otherwise it’s in “warm” mode
Those are so fucking cool
Edit: Sunbeam Radiant Control
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
You’re welcome.
My toaster just triggers the toast catapult when he’s done with his thing. Noise notifies me, toasted bread flies around, what’s not to like?
Kachunk!
what’s not to like?
it’s not a trebuchet!
The toast artillery.
o7
I have a relatively new appliance that doesn’t beep on completion. It sings. A song. Like, . . . a 20 second song. Like an ice cream truck.
Yeah I just moved from an apartment with a washer like that. It’s cute for the first 2 seconds, the first couple of uses. After a while it feels almost passive aggressive
Good job mate
But now how will you hear that it’s done from your neighbour’s house or as you’re cutting weeds?
Similar to how people in public places have their phone ringer set to “Hear it from across town”
it’s set to “my phone lives in my purse and my purse lives in a closet and i close that closet door as soon as i get home”
Right, guess I’ll be pulling a wire from my kitchen to the neighbour tomorrow.
I classify this as a repair.
An upgrade, even.
