On February 28, 2017 at 17:04, Ernie Gilman said...
I accidentally discovered that microwave timers are kind of interesting. I've checked this with a few microwaves I've had, and they've worked this way. My present one is a Sharp.
If you enter 59, you get 59 seconds.
60 gives you sixty seconds.
99 gives you 99 seconds.
100 gives you 60 seconds.
160 gives you 120 seconds but it counts them as 60, two times.
199 gives you two minutes and thirty-nine seconds. (Just verified it.)
Also, it you want a minute and a half, it's easier to punch in 99, and be 9% over, than to punch 1, 3, 0.
For that matter, I usually punch in 33, not 30. I reheat a cup of coffee with 88 when I first worked out that 90 seconds (or 1,3,0) worked right. Same button twice is quicker and easier than two different buttons. It's also 10% over the two buttons, but cooking times are always approximate anyway. Ratios of ingredients matter a lot, but times a bit less so.
To heat the water for my coffee, I don't hit 4, 0, 0, Start. I hit +1 minute, four times. Same button four times instead of a mixture of three buttons.
Does your microwave do any of this stuff?
I have a Sharp microwave at home. Gotta try this now.
I also have a Haier window air conditioner that has an IR remote. The remote has an LCD screen on it that shows the temperature. At first (when I was looking online, before I had it in my hands) I assumed it was a two-way RF remote that was reporting the temperature from the LCD readout on the AC unit itself.
Nope. It's the last temperature that you sent FROM the remote to the AC unit. There is an actual discrete IR code for every temperature setting. What a weird way to do it.
Set AC to 70 degrees on the front panel
Go in another room (so the IR remote is out of range), take the remote and hit + twice.
Now the remote reads 72 and the AC unit reads 70.
Stand in front of the AC unit with the remote and hit + once.
The remote screen goes to 73 and the AC unit goes to 73.
It works, but WTF. We can't even get discrete power commands in cheap TVs anymore, and these guys are embedding a different code for every possible temperature you can set the AC unit to.
