Recent content by kdobrev

Diode was changed, but still not heating, so I ended up putting a spare magnetron, that is not for this oven but managed to put it in there securely. It works now.

I tested and the results confuse me more. There is a strange sound coming from the oven, the fuse is not burning out, but it is not heating the glass. Everything points to a diode, but it seems fine. I will buy a replacement tomorrow and test.

OK, while waiting I grabbed a pair of pliers, wrapped a fabric around the cap and started pulling and jiggling around. It came off almost not damaged. With just a tiny dent. Then I wet sanded with 400, 1000, 2000 grit sand paper. The internal part if the cap had some really nasty charred parts...

Here is the burning fuse. It is about 40mm long but that seems irrelevant.

I have a systems engineer bachelor degree in telecommunications. I work as a developer, though. I have repaired this oven once before, and have repaired a lot of (all things i have at home and had broken at some point in the past) This is my first magnetron, but I did my extensive search on...

I have troubles with my microwave - the high voltage fuse keeps burning, but all electrical tests I performed showed no problems. So i think it is the charred antenna and antenna cap of the magnetron. I pulled them apart and tried to clean them with steel wool,but this is as far as i could get...