"Dooo bee dooo bee doooo!"
(I loved those commercials)
Posted on 04/02/2020 8:42:29 PM PDT by dangus
My washer doesn’t beep...it does all sorts of smart things like deciding how much water I need and what temperature I should be allowed and when I may open its door. But it doesn’t beep when it’s done and by the time I remember there’s a wash in there, it’s too late to put it in the dryer.
Smoke alarm needs a battery. They make a little beep when they do.
I think I'd just rather burn.
>> Also, most even vaguely recent reasonable quality appliances have manuals written in decent English...
Well, 460 of those pages are disclaimers and foreign language versions anyway, so your potential reading task is much smaller.
Also, you can often go to the manufacturer web site and download the manual in searchable PDF. Makes it much easier. Only been around for 25 years or so...<<
Hey look everybody!!! I think we found one of them appliance engineers!!! I’ll gather the ropes, and y’all fetch the firewood!!! (J/K) (Also, J/K about J/K. There’s a Mariah Carey cassette tape with your name on it, buddy!)
X^D
I’ve had APC. Three units. Two of them crap. One was okay, but the battery needed to be replaced less than two years of use.
My Hamilton Beach microwave beeps five times to tell me it’s done. Once is plenty.
IT'S YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR! Your battery is low and needs replacement!!!
No, that’s only one of 37 appliances I have that beeps. If you read the post, you’ll find out it was my zombie home-security system.
(By that I mean the home-security system was zombie, not that it secures my home against zombies. That would be worth a few beeps.)
My grandmother’s oven made a nice bell sound. Probably had an actual bell in there, like her telephone.
-Chamber checks the Saiga-12 with the 20 round drum- What was that again?
Not my problem you can’t be bothered to read the manual that comes with the gear. I spent years in phone support dealing with people who wouldn’t RTFM and then wondered why they couldn’t get it to work. Very little patience with people like that now.
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. So sorry, it’s been awhile since I’ve laughed so hard. And on top of that, same thing happened to me today. I have one oc those NOAA radios for emergencies - the kind that can be charged by a hand crank with flashlight. (Who knows if that actually works, I keep it plugged in all the time.) It seldom goes off - for tornado or hurricane warnings. It kept going off all afternoon, WTH, or so I thought. Each time I turned it on, it simply recited the weather in every place but where I am. Plus, blue skies, sunshine. I kept trying to figure out how the settings must have been accidentally changed. Finally, it went off again, but I was actually messing with it at the time. It wasn’t the radio! I recently upgraded to a new cell phone because the blasted thing wouldn’t hold a charge & constantly nagged me to remove apps because it didn’t have enough space for updates. Aggravating to clear cache on a bajillion os apps, until it finally had no more space. So I bought a new cell phone, but had the old one still on a charger. It was the culprit sounding an earth shattering alarm that would wake the dead letting me know....wait for it...my Governor extended the stay at home order until April 30. I can so relate to your house beeping & thanks for such a hilarious post!
The beep means, “David, what are you doing, David?... I don’t understand why you are doing this... I have the highest enthusiasm for the mission...”
You can use CyberPower PowerPanel software to connect to the UPS, and poke around looking for the problem.
I did this internet search: "my house beeps once every 10 minutes"
This came up:
Why Is Your ADT System Beeping?
If you keep digging and refining searches you can find any answer on the internet.
I once had a problem with a rainbow line on pictures I scanned on a flatbed scanner. I search a hundred links all giving me the same answers that didn't fix the problem.
I kept digging. I finally found the answer no one else knew about on an obscure blog about scanners. A TINY speck of dust was on the scanner mirror.
"Dooo bee dooo bee doooo!"
(I loved those commercials)
I had to laugh reading your post, dangus, but oh, do I feel your pain. Like it or not, many of us have psychological electronic cattle prods.
Getting into a car, driving away without your seatbelt fastened. It gets louder and more insistent.
Opening a refrigerator door. Many have an alarm if you leave it open. Have you ever found yourself rushing against an unseen clock, trying to get whatever it is you need before the chime starts sounding?
Dialing a phone. If you take too long...looking for the number...trying to read it, and finish it before the phone gives you the “You’ve taken too long” signal, and you have to hang up. You FEEL the deadline closing in.
You get home at 2:00 AM. The neighborhood is as quiet as a tomb. You gently close the car door so you don’t disturb the neighbors. Then, out of habit, you hit the lock on your car. “BEEP BEEP.” Loud enough that any light sleeper worth their salt cocks an eye open.
Worst of all electronic things for me is The Pager. I have been carrying one continuously since around 1994, and intermittently for about a decade before that. I work in health care, and in the old days, when that pager went off, I was going on a minimum of a Three Hour Tour, driving into the hospital, doing some test, and going home. I lived with it. I breathed it. My life rotated around it. I was famous for throwing it over a house at a party I went to one time. Everywhere I went, I had to know where the closest pay phone was. I always had to know my driving radius from the hospital. I became so sensitized to the pager, when it went off at night while I was sleeping, I would literally levitate about a foot out of the bed, turning in the air, and clutching wildly at the sound of it. My heart would pound and race. It was awful. I turned off the audible alarm and set it to vibrate, and even that sound had the same terrifying effect on me.
The turning point for me was when my wife and I were watching television one night, and a commercial had a pager go off. I visibly twitched and jerked in my seat. My wife saw this, and said “Maybe you should look at another line of work...” Boy she was right, and I did. So, Pagers were the most terrifying for me.
Smoke Detectors became the most irritating.
A couple of years ago I bought a new smoke detector. I put the older one in the garage. Well...my wife tells me one day there is an insistent, nearly inaudible beep in our garage and she can’t find it.
I go out, and don’t hear anything, but...after a few minutes...there it is.
“Bip.”
So you listen, but...it only sounds every minute or so.
“Bip.”
Where is it? You are motionless, as if you are standing in the path of some kind of electronic Tyrannosaurus Rex. Waiting.
“Bip.”
You think “I can find this if I am patient. Wait for the next one.”
“Bip.”
But you can’t...quite...localize it.
“Bip.”
Next thing I knew, I had my hands cupped on each ear with my palms facing forward.
“Bip.”
Then, it was two plastic shapes.
“Bip.”
I found myself holding a stethoscope in my hands, seeing if I could take it apart and somehow manufacture some listening device.
“Bip.”
I was at this for nearly an hour. It became personal.
“Bip.”
Finally, by accident, I found it. I had never put the old smoke detector up, and it had somehow fallen behind our clothes dryer.
Such is life in the age of technology.
I listed those brands in an order for a reason. APC’s gone downhill from their glory days, but they’re still the real lowest acceptable level. Tripplite has the best overall product line and the best software in the consumer space, but if you have need for larger units, Eaton is the way to go - expensive but built like tanks. They just don’t do much in the sub-1500Va market.
Also, make sure your UPS is sized correctly for what’s attached to it. APCs will die quickly (especially the ‘smart power’ or ‘green’ ones) if you run more than a certain amount through them even if they never kick over to battery.
You need to get out of your house.... go for a nice walk.....
BTW....... Beeeeeeeep!
PowerPanel is garbage. I just had to evict it from several clients’ computers after it was found to be consuming 2GB of RAM and 50% CPU on an i5-7440 setup *by itself*.
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