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Rod Speed

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Edwin Pawlowski wrote
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Actually, I wish they would do away with clocks in microwaves and
kitchen appliances in general. I don't need or want extra clocks

Just as the microwave has a clock based timer that counts down
and shuts if off too. Makes is saver for children and seniours to use
over other cooking apliances. Why would you want to eliminate that?
You could step back 20 years and put in a windup timer but I don't
see any real savings there.

A countdown timer doesn't require a full-fledged time-of-day clock with
a display that is on all the time. Indeed, most modern microwaves
allow you to turn the TOD clock display off by hitting stop/clear
when it first powers up and the clock isn't set. That's a good feature.

But it doesnt any effect on the current draw with the device idling.

I did point out that my coffee maker has a clock because
I like the safety feature of a timed cutoff. But, a simple
countdown timer could accomplish the safety cutoff.

But doing it that way wont necessarily save any power over
one that just the display off when the timed cutoff completes.

The TOD clock part is useless to me, though I can
see how some people can use that for timed starts.

I just use it as a convenient clock in the kitchen.

Just having the option to turn the TOD clock
display off would be a good thing, in my opinion.

Only if it actually saves any power.