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Runs but wont heat up

I just tried to pop popcorn and nothing happened. It ran the full 3 mins. and never even got warm. What's up with that? Runs normal,just doesn't cook.

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  • Johnpeters Dec 23, 2007

    I just tried to heat up my dinner one night and nothing happened. It put it on for the full 3
    mins. and my dinner never even got warm. What's up with that? I don't care as this microwave isn't min it's my flat mates HAHA LOL

  • Anonymous Jul 05, 2008

    I had the same problem. I was told to put the bag of popcorn on an upside down pie dish. It works! A bit inconvenient, but it gets the job done (I have no idea why)

  • Anonymous Jul 27, 2008

    Microwave no longer heats food.



  • roger-whitle Aug 21, 2008

    try heating a dinner plate but it wouldnt heat up. and the panel says to change charcoal fiter but I lost the maneal book and dont know where to locate the filter

  • Anonymous Mar 06, 2009

    it sounds like it would normally but when you get the item out of the microwave it is not even warm

  • Anonymous Mar 19, 2014

    was popping popcorn and the microwave stop heating it continues to run but there is no heat

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Quite often this is due to a bad door switch. Opening the door while cooking (without first hitting the STOP button) is the primary cause of door switch failure.

Posted on Sep 20, 2006

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    Again, I would bet you have a bad door switch. Try gently pushing down on the door about 1/16" while heaitng up a cup of weater. Thebn see if the water heated.

    Also look for a file called "doorsw.txt" on Google. It explains more in depth.

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Probably magnatron is bad. Best test is to substitute a known good one. There are others but you are in the 4000 volt area of the unit.

Posted on Aug 20, 2006

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I just bought a 1.1 size microwave. I tried popping a full size bag of popcorn using 2 pushes of the popcorn setting. The bottom popcorn came out black. Any idea why?
The microwave burnt it. It will be a bit of trial and error with using your new microwave and will also depend (in this case) the brand of pop corn you've cooking. Check the recommendations on the pop corn packaging for time and heat range. Happy popping!

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We can't get our microwave to fully pop the bag of popcorn. If we use the popcorn button it stops before the bag even starts popping. If we preset the time, the same occurs and if we run it until its...
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This allows more microwaves to penetrate the bag from the bottom.

Also always place food of any kind in the microwave off-center on the tray, NOT in the middle of the tray.

Not only does it cook more evenly (think of how you stir liquid) but it also prevent the same spot from being heated repeatedly on the glass turntable, which can lead to overheating and breakage.

We're happy to help you with free advice and we'd appreciate your thoughtful rating of our answer.

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Otherwise, the magnetron will be ruined, and that drives up the repair cost.

If you or a friend decide to work on it, we have *critical* safety, disassembly, and troubleshooting info at our site, and our link is at our listing here on FixYa: http://tinyurl.com/yzjozk

You can order parts here: https://www.mcappliance.com/partorder.aspx

To contact Magic Chef about getting an *authorized* servicer, see: http://www.mcappliance.com/contactus/contactus.asp

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