Electronics advice needed

[mutleybones]

I suppose this comes under the category of bodge and possibly energy-saving.

I've just bought an incubator for chicken/duck/goose eggs, very pleased with it except for one thing. When it turns the eggs it plays a little tune to itself, those wacky Koreans don't half know how to enjoy themselves. All great, except for at 2am, 3am, 4am ... A quick google finds plenty of people with the same annoyance and the only solution given seems to be 'spend the extra £50 for the deluxe version where you can turn the tune off'.

Or take a hammer to it. Or more subtly, a no. 1 pozi and some snips. Bearing in mind, that when I tinker with electronics I always let the magic smoke out I thought I'd best get some advice. What's the best way to disable a piezo buzzer without the rest of the circuitry being any the wiser?

a) snip one of the terminals?
b) short across the two terminals?
c) poke the point of a compass through it a la my Action Man walkie-talkie 30 years ago?

Cheers,

Steve.

[Sean]

some blutac over and in the port is often quite an effective volume control

[Pat_]

If it's not used for anything else (button press feedback or alarm or something) then a. Else as per post above.

[guydewdney]

Add enough insulation to it to stop you hearing it....

A friend who does eggs commercially on a small scale, bought an incubator - and found it has two heationg elements - both 1kw (iirc). One was on permenantly, the other was thermostatically controlled! he put the incubators into an old tesco fridge van back - and found that this was 'too much' insulation, and the eggs cooked! he has now modified it accordingly, and uses vastly less leccy.

[mutleybones]

Thanks for the replies, going to cut into the lead and add a 'silence' switch.