When microwaves stop working what are the most common parts inside that fail 1st? Ours has stopped working?
Our kitchen light stopped working the other day and it turned out we only needed a new capacitor and the guy who was going to repair it told us some other little lie along with giving us a quote of £60.
After a little research and help from yahoo answers we didn’t make the mistake of letting him fix it and the next day went out and purchased a capacitor which cost only £1.25.
So with the microwave I’m sure there has to be some some little thing inside that needs replacing. I’m not too bad with my DIY so instead of paying for repairs I want to try myself 1st but have no idea where to start.
Help would be appreciated.
We are using some replacement microwave we bought for cheap but you have to set it so high in order for it to warm the food properly and even then the food doesn’t warm up properly in the middle lol.
It’s a panasonic microwave
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try a new fuse
Not knowing which kind of microwave you have I can’t tell you where you would find the most common failure part. That part is a fuse. Maybe your manual would tell you. In my experience the most common failure is a fuse inside the microwave. Simple and inexpensive to repair.
usually it’s because someone has used too much water when cleaning the unit. you might try putting it away for a while, let it dry. or use a blow dryer to speed up drying time.
if your that good with diy,then it shouldn’t be that hard for you to figure out whats wrong with it
i feel that these days its so much easier to just go buy a new one, they are pretty cheap and you give your kitchen an upgrade at the same time
If you get anything to start, lite or move when you push start, including the touch pad, if it has one for control, then the fuse is not the problem. If the fuse blows, it will be dead in the water, so to speak. It has been my experience, though, that sometimes the little prongs that depress the switches when the door is closed can either break, or sometimes the switches can loosen in their brackets to the point where they aren’t depressed enough to make proper contact, thus not letting the unit turn on. The micro we have now has to have the door lifted occasionally when trying to start to make the levers trip the switches. If you do decide to try repairing this yourself, be extremely careful around the transformer and capacitors, usually in the rear end of the unit. It stores a huge amount of electricity which can kill you if you touch it wrong.
The first time my microwave quit working I thought I’d have to replace it. It was the over the stove type with the hood, light, fan and all built in at roughly $500. I opened it up and found a small fuse about an inch long, covered it in tin foil and plugged it back in and it worked. I went the next day and bought a new fuse and never had another problem. The microwave was 15 yrs old when we moved out and was still going strong. It was a Whirlpool.