XPost: sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair   
   From: trepidation@example.net   
      
   On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:07:28 -0800, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:04:05 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:   
   >>On 1/28/25 18:32, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:56:59 -0800, john larkin wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> [snip]   
   >>>   
   >>>> We have a horrible new Panasonic microwave oven. The BEEP is   
   >>>> ear-splitting. The procedure to silence it is complex, and only   
   >>>> works if the door is open.   
   >>   
   >>On one occasion, I muted an obnoxious beeper by stuffing   
   >>chewing gum into it. There! Problem solved.   
   >   
   > I break the piezo buzzer, if I can get at it.   
   >   
   > We should arrest whoever invented piezo buzzers.   
   > Put him in a prison cell with 100 piezos.   
      
   Additionaly, if you have 'normal' hearing loss, those piezo buzzers   
   cannot be heard without hearing aids.  I don't wear hearing aids   
   to bed -- so smoke and carbon monoxide alarms will never awaken me.   
   We had a CO 'incident' several years ago, and my wife heard the alarm.   
   Not me.  I can be standing in front of the microwave and I won't know   
   my coffee is hot until the "END" lights up.   
      
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