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THE BREAKER IN MY KITCHEN WENT OFF AND WENT IT WAS RE-SET EVERYTHING PLUGGED IN STARTED RIGHT UP EXCEPT MY MICROWAVE. ITS LESS THAN A YEAR OLD AN HAS HAD VERY LITTLE USE. IT IS NOW COMPLETELY DEAD. DOES IT HAVE A FUSE THAT MAYBE BLEW? ITS A 1000 W
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Did you check the internal fuse? Often when everything is dark the fuse that protects the microwave is blown. Take the old fuse to your local hardware store and they will have a replacement for you. Should cost less than $5.
Ck your gfci breaker in your wash room or bath room. If this dosn't fix it it may be an internal fuse. If this is the case you will need to find what caused breaker to blow or it will happen again.
You say all power went out but it is not a breaker. What power went out? In your kitchen? house? or just the machine? Can it be that you are plugged in a circuit that is protected by a GFI?
There normally is a fuse inside an oven on the floor. Unplug the device, remove the cover. DO NOT TOUCH THE SILVER CAN IN THE BACK - LETHAL.
Check the fuse with an ohm meter or contunity checker of some type.
If you need additional assistance, please let me know.
If it came installed in the house, it may have its own breaker switch. I'd check the breaker. Have any outlets in the kitchen gone out as well? This would support the breaker switch idea.
sometime the kitchen has gfc outlets around the walls and one of them tripped. but not likely , it sounds like the microwave fried some valuable circuitry.
First (and most likely) the circuit is being overloaded. This kitchen circuit may be shared with another appliance (like the refrigerator) which is drawing enough power when both are running to trip the breaker. A Typical kitchen circuit is 20 amp with #12 wiring. So an 1800 watt microwave might draw 13 or 14 amps while a fridge compressor kicking in can surpass 7 amps before it levels off. If this is an older home the kitchen may have a 15 amp circuit with #14 wiring. If the circuit is a 20 amp you will have to split the appliances onto separate circuits. (Under code a kitchen must have a minimum of 2 separate appliance circuits). If it is a 15 amp you might be able to split them as well or may be looking up upgrading the breaker and the wiring from 15amp #14 to 20 amp #12 (but you could still have the same problem).
The other possibility is a short or loose connection. If splitting appliances onto their own circuits doesn't fix this you would probably want an electrician to come in and check for other underlying causes which could represent a fire hazard.
Magnatron is suspect. Need to put a voltmeter and see if the
input (primary) side to the high-voltage transformer (big heavy iron
thing in there) is getting 120Vac. Don't touch the other (high
voltage) side of this transformer. If the power is there, you are
looking at replacing the magnatron. Its affordable if you do it
yourself - buy the part on EBAY - lookup "universal magnatron"
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