Ever tried to make a cup of tea ? Or perhaps something else that you have to boil? Nice and easy in the microwave! In my case everything is spoiled by the fact that the cup handle is always (I mean it) on the back side of the microwave, so I have to stick my hand inside and perhaps touch the full tea cup (which burns me as usual). Why not make the microwave 'Think' and calculate how I put the cup (from which side comes the cup handle) and then calculate the rotation so that the handle comes everytime in the front side, easy to catch? Perhaps they could use a red marker which indicates the Handle position ("Place your cup-handle according to the red line"). What do you think? Is that already invended?
Thanks, best regards. Nik
P.S. Excuse my poor english skills.
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Just hand turn the turntable so the handle is where you need it. It shouldn't break anything.
Yes, they could set it up so that the turntable stops where it starts, but that may be too costly to implement, although all they need is a home sensor on the turnable, and an input on the control micro, which will keep the turntable motor on for a few seconds until the home sensor is triggered.
When I make my morning cup of instant coffee I know that the cup, at one and a half minutes of heating, ends at 180 degrees (angles) from where it started so I place the cup with the handle facing away from the center at the back of the unit. It ends up at the front with the handle facing outwards. Each machine might have different rates of rotation but a bit of experiment should get your cup in the proper position with the proper timing.
An unstated selling point on certain microwaves is that some of them will, in fact, rotate the turntable such that the contents are oriented the same way at the end of the heating cycle as they were at the beginning.
The Kenmore microwave I use rotates the dish once every ten seconds. Should the input be anything other than a multiple of ten, it will turn off the magnetron but continue rotating until the "cycle" is complete. (All bets are off should you push "Stop" or open the door before its time.)
Another microwave I have come across (forget the brand) allowed only input of 15-second multiples. (There was no traditional number pad, but three buttons: 10 minutes, 1 minute, and 15 seconds.) I suppose this one had a matching rate of rotation, too.
Now if there was some way of guaranteeing that the turntable would always reorient itself, even if the microwave was stopped, we'd be on to something.
I think any manufacturer could provide this for free. At least the ones that turn oposite ways on each use. Since it already has a bi-directional table, a timer, a microprocessor, and knows the time you set, all they have to do is make a slight programming change to turn one way for half the time and then the other way for the remaining half!
With a little more smarts in the program - even if you hit stop, it could continue to rotate (the shortest direction) to the original position (since they know a full rotation time).
There may be a need to caculate a dead time when reversing, but the whole matter should be just a SMOP (small matter of programming).