Take microwave apart to disconnect bleeper?

[Frimley111R]

Seems simple enough, take off cover and disconnect bloody annoying speaker/bleeper thing. Nothing I need to do/be aware of otherwise is there?

[S6PNJ]

You could always unplug it first, y'know, just to be safe an' all that!

[furtive]

How will you know when your ready meal is, erm, ready?

[UnderTheRadar]

In some equipment bleepers are piezo devices soldered direct onto the circuit board.

[UnderTheRadar]

furtive said:

How will you know when your ready meal is, erm, ready?

When the smoke alarm goes off

[mrmr96]

S6PNJ said:

You could always unplug it first, y'know, just to be safe an' all that!

For a microwave, with all their crazy batst electronics, I'd unplug it and leave it a while first.

I would also wear rubber gloves, just to be sure. No tinfoil hat though.

Seriously, just be careful.

[Simpo Two]

No way to set it to '0' in the instructions?

[Squiggs]

Why are you feeling the need to cook heat things up and yet keep it secret that it's already so f@uk!ng hot that it'll melt your mouth?
















P.S.
If you're trying to commit silent suicide then really it's a gas rather than microwave oven you'll be needing

[Gareth79]

Rather than disconnect, if it's piezo you can probably attenuate it a lot just by sticking a piece of tape over the sounder, or to take it down to almost nothing put a blob of Araldite on the sounder plate.

[pikeyboy]

Gareth79 said:

Rather than disconnect, if it's piezo you can probably attenuate it a lot just by sticking a piece of tape over the sounder, or to take it down to almost nothing put a blob of Araldite on the sounder plate.

This^^

We have a new test rig at work and it doesn't need a 200db siren to tell you its starting up. I installed a strip of gaffer tape over the siren, now no longer an issue, aural harmony is resumed.