Lou Schneider
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The 2008 DRV 5th wheel I use as a home base came with a large, no-name microwave over the stove that includes a hood vent and light. As far as I know it's the original equipment.
Several months back I accidentally let it run without anything inside and after a few minutes it shut down, dead. No clock, no light, no vent fan, nothing. I let it sit for several minutes in case it tripped an overtemperature thermal breaker that would reset itself. No luck.
I figured the best case was an internal fuse I could replace after wrestling the microwave down from it's mount over the stove. Worst case would be a new microwave at $600-1000+ depending on whether I got one with a convection oven.
I had a freezer full of microwave frozen food I needed to deal with, and while shopping at our local Wal-Mart I saw they had small 700 watt countertop microwaves on sale for $40. What the heck, it would serve until I decided what to do about the big one. The little microwave worked remarkably well and I put off dealing with the big one.
Yesterday I finally decided to take the big one down and see what was up. Before I did that I plugged it in and guess what, it started working.
A couple of days ago I saw a YouTube video about portable electric heaters and it said they include overtemperature cutouts that stay disconnected until power is removed from the unit. It's a thermal breaker with a little heating element inside that keeps the breaker hot and open after it trips until power is removed and it can cool down..
Apparently the microwave has a similar overload which only resets itself after sitting unplugged for a while. Who'd a thunk?
Several months back I accidentally let it run without anything inside and after a few minutes it shut down, dead. No clock, no light, no vent fan, nothing. I let it sit for several minutes in case it tripped an overtemperature thermal breaker that would reset itself. No luck.
I figured the best case was an internal fuse I could replace after wrestling the microwave down from it's mount over the stove. Worst case would be a new microwave at $600-1000+ depending on whether I got one with a convection oven.
I had a freezer full of microwave frozen food I needed to deal with, and while shopping at our local Wal-Mart I saw they had small 700 watt countertop microwaves on sale for $40. What the heck, it would serve until I decided what to do about the big one. The little microwave worked remarkably well and I put off dealing with the big one.
Yesterday I finally decided to take the big one down and see what was up. Before I did that I plugged it in and guess what, it started working.
A couple of days ago I saw a YouTube video about portable electric heaters and it said they include overtemperature cutouts that stay disconnected until power is removed from the unit. It's a thermal breaker with a little heating element inside that keeps the breaker hot and open after it trips until power is removed and it can cool down..
Apparently the microwave has a similar overload which only resets itself after sitting unplugged for a while. Who'd a thunk?
