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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I classify this as a repair.
An upgrade, even.
This should be a service. And some fancy EU regulation banning ones you can’t mute.
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…
- 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?
I don’t think piezo buzzers are exactly resistive loads, or that cutting speakers would break appliances either way. 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? 🤔
In the best case it’s the buzzer.
😂
Yeah! Yeah! CUT ITS FUCKING LEGS OFF!
IT BEEPS NO MORE.
Have they stopped, Clarice? The beeping of the appliances?
Will it still work even though there’s no longer a connection across where the beeper used to be? Got a toaster that beeps so high that even our cat gets freaked out
I can’t make guarantees, but it should be fine. There’s some microcontroller inside that’s programmed to turn the voltage high or low. It just flicks the switch and doesn’t know or need to know what happens behind it.
I am so done with kitchen appliances fucking beeping at me. The only beeps I accept is the one to let me know I didn’t close the freezer. My stove does not need to beep when it’s turned on, beep when a plate is selected, then beep with every step of temperature increase. Don’t even get me started on the microwave, when it is done heating, it just keeps beeping forever, LOUDLY.
Like, FUCK YOU I WILL COME WHEN I SO GOD DAMNED PLEASE. One ping only please. Jesus it infuriates me.
This seems to be the problem with the tech trend of removing tactile knobs or actual buttons.
Now we have these “touch” screens that can only provide feedback through annoying beeps, because you can’t feel them or hear them click anymore.
My electric kettle for example has a lever to press down and start it. No beeps needed, because when it’s done you hear the mechanism click off as the lever returns to its off position.
On the other hand my air fryer can get fucked with that one “everything knob”. I’ve accidentally turned it a smidge many times pressing it in to start. This resets all the settings that I have to dial back in and makes me want to yeet the fucker out the window.
if only they used the same damn knobs they used in the 1980s. what measured analog resistance instead of checking for bumps and shit. there’s a damn chip in there, use it to convert the analog to digital. the analog dials have SO MUCH BETTER tactile response.
I know right?! Knobs are the best; I love feeling them with my hands. Nothing can replace the tactile satisfaction of a good knob. Instant feedback when you give it a twist, with ridges and texture for your pleasure.
Sometimes I find knobs can get a bit stiff, you really have to give them a good jerk when that happens.
My 20 year old microwave has multiple beeps? Like soft ones when you press stuff, a couple of loud ones when it’s done. Some acoustic feedback is nice.
My recent kitchen appliances just beep the same volume regardless of what’s happening. To loud when using the device, to soft to properly notify you when completing a task. That air fryer experience hits close to home. Fuck modern appliances. Although my new washing machine is a shitload more efficient.
I don’t want smart tech, I want old fashioned pre 2008 dumb tech. Just make it home assistant compatible, kthx.
But then how will the multinational corporations be able to get your data? 🥺👉👈
Wait shit, the face is supposed to be first? I’ve been 👉👈 🥺ing like an idiot
Now we have these “touch” screens that can only provide feedback through annoying beeps, because you can’t feel them or hear them click anymore.
We’re so buried in our phones. Instead of giving someone a real smile, we send an emoji. I mean, we don’t even look at porn at our computer anymore, we look at it on our PHONE?
Someone needs to get spanked
Well someone is gonna have to do it!
RTFM, there might be settings to stop the beep.
Rage the fucking machine?
How dare you.
Oh the fucking microwave. Newer ones supposedly have a setting to turn off the beep but mine doesn’t. It constantly beeps when it is done which is a delight if I’m in the bathroom trying to excremeditate.
Actually it’d be quite nice if stoves and ovens made a noticeable background sound when they were on. Like something pleasant, but noticable, so you don’t accidentally leave them on.
Does not help. If you don’t notice the burner is hot, you’d think the flame would be obvious. It’s not
My new stove beeps when it is on but there’s no pan which seems like a good idea at first, but that means it yells at me when I pick a pan up such as to help the butter or oil spread around
i’d at least want to be able to program how i got yelled at. if i’m getting yelled at in a kitchen it doesn’t feel right in bitcode. can we at least train the stove to wave a knife around while it yells at me?
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I mostly solved that by not having fires often.
I would love if that was enough. My fire-and-spider detecor is very loud.
Ah, my dust detectors wake up the kids, myself and the neighbour’s dog.
Aaaargh, this hits too close to home. I gave up on the pause-every-10-minutes at 3 am on the last one and drowned the sumbitch in the old diaper bucket…
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Nooo, not my precious alarm clock… it’s the only thing that still works for me. I always manage to sleep through the loudest alarm volume on two different phones, regardless of whatever tones or music I choose. Not even El Sonidito works anymore.
I’ll be dead (metaphorically, at the least) if the smoke detector stops beeping for me :(
I know right?! It’s giving me a headache and I feel just so tired.
(Obviously your solution is far more graceful and honestly solid work I just…cannot even)
OP woke up dull, will be going to bed tonight a king
My water dispenser needs this repair. Beeps a total of six times for a cup of warm water. Come to think of it, most of my appliances need this repair. Can’t even throw a frikandel late at night in the airfryer without waking the whole appartment building. And it is called a Ninja?
The ninja air fryers are famous for their obnoxious and loud beeps! Friend of mine has one, and I was stunned by how loud it beeps. And it does that at every step of the process: Choosing temperature and time, starting, restarting (after necessary turning over the fried goods), at the end (multiple times then).
Looked it up and found loads of complaints about that problem.
It is a nice fryer, but what you are telling is exactly the behaviour of mine. Also, I have tinnitus, beep yeah.
And it is called a ninja?
File a lawsuit for false advertising.
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!
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.
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.
How? Does it have a cellular modem built in or
did the washer trick you into connecting to your WiFiis there a reason to connect the washer to the WiFi?Edit: My joke felt a bit too snarky.
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.
"To activate your dish washer and receive critical firmware updates, please enter WiFi password: "
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.
You can lower the volume of those piezo alarms by putting a 6-32 screw through the hole. It will push on the diaphragm on the inside and muffle the vibrations. You can actually dial in the volume you want by turning the screw just right. Or just kill it with fire
I don’t think I’m up for a screw that short
Or you can do like I did and lose that frequency range of your hearing. I no longer hear the washer or dryer or the microwave…Problem solved!
What about a smoke alarm?
It’s a different pitch that I can hear. So I’m still good.
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
Ive also filled the hole with glue. Same thing
Do you have a preferred foam tape?
I’m probably going to be buying some in the next couple weeks (I will probably need some shims) and anything foamy will work
I normally use tesa double-sided mounting tape.
Definitely counts as a repair. Did the same to my microwave although much easier (simply put some tape on the metal bell it has inside).
I know when the microwave is done. It’s silent then.
I had to do the same to my fridge. Normally it’s supposed to beep if you forget the door open or after a power outage, which is good, but at one point it started erroring out and beeping just randomly, so measures had to be taken.
Mine used to beep when I left the door open for a certain time (usually happened when putting groceries away), but at some point it stopped. Maybe I held the button too long and muted it instead of snoozing the alarm. Either way, I like it better like this.
Oooh! Our samsung dryer and washer does a long song. I tear off one speaker and the other I just covered the hole for a muffled song.
Electric kettle malfunctioning is one of the leading reasons for house fires.
Is it going to beep like a smoke alarm?
Don’t they all have auto-shutoff?
They should, but that doesn’t mean it still will after fiddling with it.
It may have been a structural integrity buzzer.
it was clearly a load supporting buzzer
I’m assuming that must be over in Europe because here in the USA electric kettles are relatively rare. And if this is the UK, I’m surprised the leading cause of fires isn’t all those ring circuits they like over there.
