Sounds the same as what I have, except for the beep. The ability to set the temperature seems nice, though I’ve never needed it. Usually I just grab it before it boils.

I would have bought the simplest one with only an on/off switch. The thing’s a little too big and it beeps, but now that I have it, I’ll keep it until it dies or becomes nasty.

I can’t make guarantees, but it should be fine. There’s some microcontroller inside that’s programmed to turn the voltage high or low. It just flicks the switch and doesn’t know or need to know what happens behind it.

At that point I would just burn it and only piss on it once the fire’s out.

I mostly solved that by not having fires often.

Is it going to beep like a smoke alarm?

leds flashlights that all have multimode including rapid flashing

Or even worse, bike headlamps.

Right, guess I’ll be pulling a wire from my kitchen to the neighbour tomorrow.

I don’t really do tea either, but I do make my coffee with this thing.

It’s the easiest and fastest way I can boil water. If I had induction and a fitting kettle, it would probably be equally good while taking less space. I once looked what kind of stovetop kettles exist, but none seemed good. Also, with the context of this post, you may guess how I feel about a whistling kettle. I just want to boil water, not listen to high pitched noises.

Time’s up, now get back to work

I don’t think piezo buzzers are exactly resistive loads, or that cutting speakers would break appliances either way. My kettle works the same as before, just less annoying.

Luckily this is a pretty simple thing to diy, at least for a kettle.

If anyone wants to repeat this, but doesn’t know how:

• Unscrew the bottom (if the screws are different, keep track of which goes where)
• Locate the beeper and…
  • Remove it with a soldering iron
  • Cut its legs off with some kind of clipper
  • If you have neither, wiggle it until the legs break, or carefully rip it off the board

Should work, yeah. I guess I’d start by trying something like 100 ohms, but I don’t really know.