Removed the stupid loud beep from the kettle
It beeps when it's done.
It beeps when you press the button.
It beeps when you place it on the base.
It beeps no more.
I classify this as a repair.
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I did the same with my fan. Fucker beeped when the sleep timer ended
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.
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.
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?
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.
Those are so fucking cool
Edit: Sunbeam Radiant Control
Does it require a Bluetooth connection? Lol I wish that was entirely a joke question
this post versus the series of recent posts about removing microphones from TV remote controls:
::: spoiler (links to some of the posts)
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?
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:
Is there no need to replace it with a resistor of equal value?
I doubt a beeper would be put in series with something important...
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.
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.
Ah, my fancy Japanese kettle that doesn’t beep at all. Worth every euro.
Good job mate
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.
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.
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.
How? Does it have a cellular modem built in or did the washer trick you into letting it connect to your WiFi?
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.)
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.
Mine does the same and also beeps when you take it from the base. I should repair it too.
Well done! I did the same with a previous air fryer. My apartment is 5m wide; the beeps are very much not necessary
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?
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
Should work, yeah. I guess I'd start by trying something like 100 ohms, but I don't really know.
Yeah I've been meaning to do this to my damn kettle too.
There's no need for them,
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.
Your kettle before the mod: