Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by wongarsu on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:02AM
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> why don't coffee machines that can start on a timer have a backup battery for their clock?
As a European the thought wouldn't have come to me. Brownouts just don't happen (see this 0.5% frequency dip making headlines), and a blackout is a once-a-decade event for any given house (probably even less frequent than that).
So your answer is probably that demand for that feature is far from universal, and a coffee machine is much lower stakes than for example an alarm clock.
Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by nottorp on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:04AM
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> Depends. I'm in a rural area, and I get 5-second power cuts every couple of months. It's the main reason I have a UPS under my computer desk.
This. Can't put the coffee maker on an UPS though. Or not on a cost effective UPS.
> So your answer is probably that demand for that feature is far from universal, and a coffee machine is much lower stakes than for example an alarm clock.
Actually for the alarm clock i'm just going to be late. Not having coffee hurts much more!
If not, why don't coffee machines that can start on a timer have a backup battery for their clock? That might be cheap enough too. And vital for those moments when there was a 10 second brownout which leads to your coffee not being ready in the morning...