"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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Andy Champ wrote:
Bob Minchin wrote:
Jerry wrote:
wrote in message
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As it says above basically, my 2 yr old panasonic digital microwave
has given up it's primary function of heating food.
Is it worth repairing, it only cost 70 quid and can possibly get a
replacement for cheaper these days.
If I thought it was a simple fuse or something I'd have ago at
changing it.
Any suggestions?

Unless it's still under warranty I would suggest that it's 'beyond
economical repair', with labour you'll end up paying more a replacement
will cost, the fact that most of the functions work suggest that the
megatron has expired - just wondering if someone has tried heating foil
rapped mince pies... :~o


I think you have been watch too much sci-fi

"the megatron has expired"

pmsl!


Fairly obvious he meant magnetron isn't it?

Andy
Yes Andy, I did manage to interpret what he meant but what credibility
does a reply have when the name of a basic component is wrong?
Having repaired many microwaves in my time, I have never had to change a
magnetron. Faults tend to be controller/timers, power supply diodes and
capacitors, door interlocks and the odd fuse or two.

Gosh, I've got a big stack of ring magnets in the garage, each pair
represents
a US magnetron. As you say, HV rectifiers were much more common,
but I found S/C HV capacitors much less common than magnetrons.

We did a lot of Sharp models on behalf of a big insurance company.
The usual complaint was the LCD display missing segments. It was
due I think to the way the ribbon cable connecting the LCD to the
PCB was bonded, so it was unrepeatable and IIRC most of the
PCBs were 49 pounds from Sharp.

Compared to what was our core business (TV & audio) microwave
repair was dead easy.

--
Graham.

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