[James Flavell]

Hi,

We had a powercut today prior to which all was working well. When the power came back on the Microwave didn't come on. All other appliances work OK. I wondered if it was a blown fuse from a spike and so replaced the plug fuse to no avail. The glass fuse in the microwave looks intact and tests as 0 ohms and the ceramic 10a 250v 314 fuse also seems to test to 0 ohms. I don't know what else to try. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

James

[PS Staff - Sheila]

Your fuse should have 24 ohms resistance.

It sound like the surge opened the fuse.

[Mr Scott]

I just had the same thing happen to me yesterday. Power outage hit, microwave shut off, power came back on, microwave didn't.

I checked pretty much everything it's possible to check and no dice. While I had the cover off I noticed that when I plugged it in, the light went on for a second and the fan turned on for a second too. Then, *bloop!* nothing again, the timer would run, but that was it. Redid that several times and it did the same thing each time. Light, fan, *bloop!* nothing.

So, I un and replugged it in, but purposely LEFT THE DOOR OPEN this time. Thinking, that whatever it's trying to do is retripping whatever circuit was tripped by the outage. Guess what? No light, no fan, no *bloop!*, it worked just fine after that.

I even recreated the entire situation, (Poweroutage and all) 20+ times and goofy as it may sound, leaving the door open when I unplugged and then replugged it worked every single time and the microwave worked just fine after that.

Give it a shot, who knows, it just might work!