Interesting that he thinks the clock would be better with a 32kHz crystal than with monitoring the 60Hz power frequency. The power line frequency is very tightly regulated over the long term, and should have an overall better accuracy.
Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
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Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The lack of give-a-shit in appliances is becoming apparent. Because most budget name brand kitchen appliances are just rebadged Haier/Midea OEM designs. I know HN has a hate boner for Samsung and LG appliances but for me they seem to be the most trustworthy budget appliances since at least they have their own designs instead of rebadging Chinese OEM ones like the rest. Sure, if you have money you can go with a reput…
> Sure, if you have money you can go with a reputable brand like Bosch & Siemens Just FTR they're exactly the same -- "BSH Hausgeräte GmbH" -- with just a different label on it. ... And I didn't have a single good experience in the last years, IMO they're designed for planned obsolescence. E.g. my premium Bosch Hand mixer broke after 2.5 years. Afterwards I bought a >35 years old used RG28e for half the price and it'…
Bosch and Siemens aren’t as trustworthy anymore since they no longer offer ‘bumper-to-bumper’ extended warranties longer than 5 years on appliances.
It’s like buying a car, the moment an automaker starts adding long lists of exclusions to their extended warranties, you just know their quality is going down.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#83I migrated our house to a "commercial" variant of the microwave oven [1] as I was tired of all the over-engineering and annoying patterns in modern microwaves. This microwave has exactly UI element other than the door - a digital dial that goes from 10s-6m. No start/cancel, no power level, no defrost, no program mode. I don't "cook" using the oven, only reheat or very rarely heat/boil small quantities of water. The m…
I opened my microwave and cut the piezo buzzer out with wire cutters. I have never regretted doing my "silent microwave mod".
Why do manufacturers still release products like it's 1980. I can hear when it's done, because the unit has turned off about when I expected it to.
My combo microwave/air fryer beeps if you take food out and close the door before the timer is finished, like it doesn't know what to do now.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#84I migrated our house to a "commercial" variant of the microwave oven [1] as I was tired of all the over-engineering and annoying patterns in modern microwaves. This microwave has exactly UI element other than the door - a digital dial that goes from 10s-6m. No start/cancel, no power level, no defrost, no program mode. I don't "cook" using the oven, only reheat or very rarely heat/boil small quantities of water. The m…
Maybe a dumb question, but why do consumer microwaves have all these power settings (600W, 800W, 1000W) if apparently they are useless? I don't really know how microwaving works on a physical level - do I achieve the same effect by microwaving something for 30 seconds at 1000W or 1 minute at 500W?
The difference is amazing. 1kW uninterrupted is the "dry my food" setting. Reheating chicken like that basically dries and cooks it again. At half the power and twice the time you can have an actual warm, soft chicken again.
Try heating something you cooked yourself recently and you'll see the difference clearly.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#85I migrated our house to a "commercial" variant of the microwave oven [1] as I was tired of all the over-engineering and annoying patterns in modern microwaves. This microwave has exactly UI element other than the door - a digital dial that goes from 10s-6m. No start/cancel, no power level, no defrost, no program mode. I don't "cook" using the oven, only reheat or very rarely heat/boil small quantities of water. The m…
> the over-engineering and annoying patterns in modern microwaves I walked into our office tea room one morning and saw three engineers standing around trying to work out how to use the new microwave. No joke. Quite why a microwave needs anything more than cooking time and power level knob is beyond me. (This thing probably has options to ping my phone if my jacket spuds go soggy).
We had a microwave in the office that auto started based on whatever number you pressed. If you wanted to type in 45 seconds, you would press 4 and it would instantly start running with 4 minutes on the timer. Everyone just pressed the "+30 seconds button" until it was close to the time they wanted and then stopped it manually to get it more precise.
If I remember right the solution was to press "Cook Power" then type in the number of seconds. There was nothing on the microwave to explain this, I had to look it up online.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the over-engineering and annoying patterns in modern microwaves I walked into our office tea room one morning and saw three engineers standing around trying to work out how to use the new microwave. No joke. Quite why a microwave needs anything more than cooking time and power level knob is beyond me. (This thing probably has options to ping my phone if my jacket spuds go soggy).
We had a microwave in the office that auto started based on whatever number you pressed. If you wanted to type in 45 seconds, you would press 4 and it would instantly start running with 4 minutes on the timer. Everyone just pressed the "+30 seconds button" until it was close to the time they wanted and then stopped it manually to get it more precise. If I remember right the solution was to press "Cook Power" then typ…
But actually... for me, a single button "+ 30 seconds" is sufficient for all my needs, like forever.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#87We recently got rid of a four year old microwave where the magnetron turned on spontaneously and silently when the door was closed, runaway heating the box. Control panel, lights, turntable, fan, everything is idle. Manufacturer didn't consider this an interesting defect and refused to swap out-of-warranty. The lack of give-a-shit in appliances is becoming apparent.
>The lack of give-a-shit in appliances is becoming apparent. Because most budget name brand kitchen appliances are just rebadged Haier/Midea OEM designs. I know HN has a hate boner for Samsung and LG appliances but for me they seem to be the most trustworthy budget appliances since at least they have their own designs instead of rebadging Chinese OEM ones like the rest. Sure, if you have money you can go with a reput…
With Haier, specifically, I certainly it were a lot easier to tell what they build in Kentucky versus what they ship from China. For now you can still seem to count on the GE Profile series, if you are rich enough, but the mid-grade stuff is slippery, GE badge or not. (Some of the non-GE badges are coming from Kentucky, too, but like I said, I, at least, don't know how to figure it out without begging any friends that work at Haier to give me specific model numbers to look for in stores.)
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the over-engineering and annoying patterns in modern microwaves I walked into our office tea room one morning and saw three engineers standing around trying to work out how to use the new microwave. No joke. Quite why a microwave needs anything more than cooking time and power level knob is beyond me. (This thing probably has options to ping my phone if my jacket spuds go soggy).
We had a microwave in the office that auto started based on whatever number you pressed. If you wanted to type in 45 seconds, you would press 4 and it would instantly start running with 4 minutes on the timer. Everyone just pressed the "+30 seconds button" until it was close to the time they wanted and then stopped it manually to get it more precise. If I remember right the solution was to press "Cook Power" then typ…
I mean, almost certainly you press "cook time", not "cook power" to set the time, but other than that this is exactly how every single non-dial microwave I have ever used works.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#89We recently got rid of a four year old microwave where the magnetron turned on spontaneously and silently when the door was closed, runaway heating the box. Control panel, lights, turntable, fan, everything is idle. Manufacturer didn't consider this an interesting defect and refused to swap out-of-warranty. The lack of give-a-shit in appliances is becoming apparent.
Sounds like some of the limit switches went bad. They're cheap and easy to replace if it's an expensive microwave worth the $30 or so and the time to install them.
Re: Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
We had a microwave in the office that auto started based on whatever number you pressed. If you wanted to type in 45 seconds, you would press 4 and it would instantly start running with 4 minutes on the timer. Everyone just pressed the "+30 seconds button" until it was close to the time they wanted and then stopped it manually to get it more precise. If I remember right the solution was to press "Cook Power" then typ…
But actually... for me, a single button "+ 30 seconds" is sufficient for all my needs, like forever.
Our microwaves rotary encoder behind the knob is messed up and as opposed to fixing it (you have to turn it REAL slow or it'll jump really fast forwards in time or backwards all over the place) we have just used the +30 seconds for 4 ish years.
Does the trick for sure.