OK, bringing back the memories (but funny)
My old HS shop instructure had a wooden bench going around the classroom
wall for everyone to do their book work on, metal chairs.
Well, one day he got tired of so many falling asleep in his class whil he
was out in the shop with others.
We painted the top edge with conductive alumimum paint, a bolt from top on
the strip of aluminumn paint to under the bench, then repainted the entire
top with black paint.
Hooked a spark plug tester output lead to the bolt underneath, wired the AC
imput through a switch under the instructures desk and also one out in the
shop.
Once someone fell asleep, he would hit the button, never new someone could
jump so high so quick. Was better when they got their legs all wrapped
around the metal chair and could not get up quickly.
Had one guy though, electricity would not phase him at all. Would just hold
on to the damn thing while you wlked in the dorr to shake his hand and would
light you up!
All ended the day this guy did that to our vice principle coming in the
room. Once he got over being ****ed at first kind of laughed about it, but
made us disconnect it anyway, Darn!
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The wife called GE over the weekend and the repair guy said it was
the wave guide at fault. He said GE would be in contact with me in
the next 48 hours to schedule to replace the unit, as the defect was
under warranty.
Seemed odd to me, as the unit is 4 years old.
I looked up some info on these wave guides...tried cleaning the cover
of the wave guide; the problem (buzzing) is still there.
Hi,
*Some* of the GE units had a problem with the wave stir blade sending
some of the cooking power back towards the magnetron, which could
damage the magnetron.
GE had/has a magnetron and stir blade kit to repair this.
http://www.repairclinic.com/referral.asp?R=153&N=875437
Microwave kit.
jeff.
Appliance Repair Aid
http://www.applianceaid.com/
Hmmm...GE called tonight and is bringing a new unit within 5 business
days. I seriously didn't think wave guides were covered under warranty,
Jeff!
The repair guy said replacing the magnetron/stir blade wouldn't help.
I am going to take the control panel off the old model in case a neighbor
needs it, I've heard those things are about $200. We all have the same
model in our subdivision.
Great post, Jeff. The wife didn't want me to get zapped by that
capacitor. Guess its better to leave some things to the pros.
I sincerely thank you again for your assistance!
Chris
Just put a screwdriver across the capacitor, (be sure the MW is
unplugged first), listen for a snap, and you wont get zapped. Heck,
when I was a kid, I used to charge a big capacitor and hand it to an
unsuspecting friend for a gag. Think that's bad, my uncle made a
chair with metal arm rests. Under the chair was a huge capacitor and
flashlight battery. When someone sat in the chair there was a
pressure switch that turned on the power. Then he'd say rest your
arms on the arm rests, and ZAP !!!
He got me when I was a little kid, as did he get every one of my
cousins. Then all the kids would dare the other kids to do it again.
A capacitor discharge will make you jump, but it's harmless, unless
you got a pacemaker or something.
I suppose now-a-days that would be looked upon as child abuse or
something, but back then we had a blast with that goofy chair. When I
got older I asked my uncle how that thing was wired. He actually had
two versions of it. One was just the capacitor, the other used a car
ignition coil (much more zap). It's amazing how many of the adults
sat in that thing too, after they had a few drinks. Never a dull
moment when we had family holiday parties at his house!