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That knob is absolutely crazy. It pisses me off. Maybe it makes sense after you try it and figure out how it works, but just presented like that it's insane. Wh
by moogly 3y ago
That knob is absolutely crazy. It pisses me off. Maybe it makes sense after you try it and figure out how it works, but just presented like that it's insane.
What do the letters mean? Presets you have to look up in a manual?
What is the dot inbetween 1 and 1.5? 1.25 minutes? um... so... 1 min 15 s? seems less likely that I'll ever need to select 5 minutes and 15 seconds than the missing 7, 8 or 9 minutes.
There is no marker? Does the selection light up or something? Is that also how it displays time remaining?
Do you increase the time with 10 minutes for every revolution? Then the placement of the 0 does not make sense to me.
- Groxx 3y agoYea - I've used these in multiple offices, and the only thing everyone seems to like is the "just turn the dial to turn it on" ease. Everyone I run into hates everything else about the UI because it's so vague and imprecise. Plus this single-dial stuff is really only possible because it only does full power all the time. But nobody microwaves something for 6m non stop in an office because that'll burn even a frozen meal - a more accurate dial going up to 3m would probably be better. Or, like, just use a regular time display rather than dozens of glowing dots. Turn one way to add time, the other to reduce. Easy and probably cheaper because it's not custom.
- NikkiA 3y agoThe 'start' button doubling as 1:00 and +1:00 is my favourite timesaver microwave design. I've had one dial, two dial and 'no useful controls' microwaves, they're all garbage, give me a number pad and a start button, that's fine, if power is variable too, let me switch which number I'm inputting.