How can I silence my Samsonite travel alarm clock?
My wife has a travel alarm clock bearing the Samsonite name. Sorry, but I can't find a model number on it. It's a fine clock, but with one big problem -- when she wants to check the time at night by pressing "LIGHT", a fairly loud beep is emitted. Is there any way to deactivate this beep? It's driving me crazy.
S&W will cure it.
How can we stop you multi posting?
Masking tape or duct tape over the holes where the sound comes out should reduce the volume quite a lot
H. R. Hofmann
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On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:57:16 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@att.net Has Frothed:
Won't that also mute the alarm ?
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That's certainly the discussion in the other newsgroups that the original poster foolishly posted the question to, one newsgroup by one newsgroup.
Michael
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I would consider a new alarm clock for that purpose! They are not very expensive these days...
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My wife has a travel alarm clock bearing the Samsonite name. Sorry, but I can't find a model number on it. It's a fine clock, but with one big problem -- when she wants to check the time at night by pressing "LIGHT", a fairly loud beep is emitted. Is there any way to deactivate this beep? It's driving me crazy.
I've the same problem with other brands of alarm-clocks, apparently designers belive this makes the clock more attractive. Not only the light but pressing any button will beep and this is specially annoying when you are setting the alarm time late at night.
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Well you could disconnect the beeper, but then it won't make a very good alarm clock.
It may be possible to wire up a separate circuit for the light if there's room in there. If the light button has no other functions you could cut the connection to isolate it and reuse that button.
Put a miniature switch in series with the sounder, then you can turn it off while setting or using the light. This assumes that you will remember to turn it back on for the alarm function.
H. R. (Bob) Hofmann
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A bit more automatic, instead of a switch a MOS transistor controlled by all the switches so that it is always polarized except when a switch is pushed. Diodes may be used to form an OR gate. But this is something I would not do to these cheapie clocks.
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