TL;DR:
The Cascade Personal Fan has a very loud beep. I disabled the beep by removing the cap from the buzzer. I am documenting my steps because in my quest, I saw a lot of people with the same issue.
We got a 2-pack from Costco and while the fan is very quiet, the beep is quite loud. Seems like everyone else has the same issue with this fan. All we need is a number 3 Philips screwdriver.
The box
There are two of them in the pack (because of course, it's Costco):
One fan
First, we start with these four screws in the back.
Four screws in the back
We can see the control board:
Back opened
We need to remove another three screws:
Closer look at the top
Can't really remove the connection with the board screwed to the top. We need to remove four more screws:
Top detached
A closer look at the board (open the image in a new tab for a larger view):
Control board
On the back of the board, we see:
Home Star international Ltd
25400640000 V002
Back of the board
We see a Piezo buzzer (I had to Google the type) marked with
ZLFY
. Looking around the internet, it seems like many household items use
these buzzers and a lot of people are annoyed with the sounds. I saw guides on
how to remove these buzzers for many items.
Buzzer
The second result for searching ZLFY
is the datasheet. It appears to be a
ZLFY ZL-YDW12055-4005PA-7.5
:
I used a flathead screwdriver to pop the buzzer cap:
Buzzer's cap
Having given away my soldering kit before the move, I was thinking I needed to unsolder the buzzer but the cap was actually easy to remove:
Buzzer's cap is a moved a bit
And done:
Cap removed
Enjoy no beeps and add Hardware Hacking
to your resume /s.