Re:I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
by alvah on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:54PM
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A toaster (at least a cheap toaster) is an electrical device, not an electronic one, as stated by the author in the article. Please look up the difference if you don't know what it is.
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We have toasters that run linux, connect to the internet, and play doom. Explain to me how they aren't electronic devices.
Even cheap toasters (I take toaster apart for fun) have true electronics these days because it's usually cheaper to implement things like timers electronically and if the toaster has a display it certainly has some electronics. But I suspect that the absolute simplest toasters are purely mechanical and electrical.
Most toasters these days actually use a PT8A2514A (https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/PT8A2514A.pdf) microcontroller. But it is still safe to wash, for the same reason as it is usually safe to wash a keyboard.
It's not every day you see a datasheet with a "bagel" in the diagram.
Re:I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
by kube-system on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:20PM
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I was curious so I did some searching -- this is the cheapest toaster that I'm aware of in the US, and it surprisingly does have a custom IC that handles the timing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFG068HtgM