Appliance disposal - handy tip for IoTs

Hi,

This is a non-technical but very handy tip that I stumbled upon by chance. You all must have trashed some appliance like a toaster, microwave, fridge, washer etc at some point. We disposed of a few appliances earlier this year that have been sitting on the garage shelf since the onset of the pandemic. While displosing I just had a brainwave and clipped the power cables (using a cutter) of all the appliances. For one it made trashing easier since there was no trailing cord left on any of the appliances.

Few weeks later, I was flashing a Sonoff relay for home automation and the power cable from one of the appliances came in very handy as it had the right plug (with high quality insulation) and all I had to do was strip the free end of the cable and screw it to the terminals of the Sonoff relay.

HTH.

I’m a scavenger myself.
This week I found some Ethernet cable at work the electrician left.
Makes good wiring when you build ESP devices.

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Lots of good, salvageable parts on those appliances, too. I’ll bet this HA crowd does a lot of repurposing components. But, yeah, I have a drawer full of things like power cords of various kinds. I used one today to test a Sonoff Zigbee Mini before I installed it in the switch box.

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