my settings -> signal off, no?
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Do you set the timer to 61s as well?
I found out my microwave has a mute function. That's my discovery of the year
Honestly, though, if a stopwatch counts milliseconds, I'm gonna see how close to 0 I can get without letting it hit 0
Then there’s me LOSING MY DAMN MIND because I can’t figure out how to clear the one second off of the microwave and being INFURIATINGLY MAD at the jerk who left one second on the microwave.
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I had a microwave that not only beeped when finished but also beeped every 10-15 seconds if the door wasn’t opened and food retrieved. I donated it and bought a new one because I wasn’t about to put up with that audacity.
Mine doesn't even let you interrupt the beeping. If it goes off it's doing the whole sequence whether you like it or not.
Looks like I found my people.
There are videos on how to disable it permanently
It does require a little disassembly. I have considered doing this but I use the timer on the microwave a lot when baking things.
Mine has a setting for sound off, which is great because it is a horrific loud beep, three times that doesn’t stop even if you try to interrupt it with a button or by opening the door. Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.
THIS NEEDS TO BE MAINSTREAM.
There is very little reason that with the digital behemoths that microwaves are now, that a simple "sound off" setting can't be done.
I would also love a "sound off for this cycle" option, but that might be being too needy
Even an analog switch on the back would be simple and easy to add. I know a lot of them do have ways to turn sound off. But many don't. And a simple switch on the backside would make things so much easier.
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Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.
After a power outage, my microwave absolutely refuses to do anything until I set the time. As if it's a clock that also happens to have the ability to cook food, and not the other way around.
mine is this way as well. it will count inputs as setting the clock and if you put an invalid time in has a hissy fit and isn't clear what it is asking of you. The amount of times my grandfather has tried to use it after losing power and got frusterated because he was trying to cook something and the clock wanted to set the time as something stupid like 30:22 or something like that is annoying.
Never disassemble a microwave unless you know exactly what you're doing. Like a CRT monitor, the capacitors are big enough to kill you.
Many microwaves have some sort of button combo that'll mute it.
Yeah I should have mentioned that. Definitely watch YouTube videos and be super careful to follow safety precautions.
Even unplugged capacitors can hurt you pretty bad and possibly kill you.
It's easy to not injure yourself as long as you know about this and how to avoid it. But don't go in blind.