Just had a 5 year old Panasonic Inverter combi microwave give up the ghost.

Analytical bit at end[1].

So, who makes good combi microwave ovens? I need max capacity, freestanding,
oven, grill, microwave (800W) and ability to use all/any combination.

Rather gone off Panasonic. Thinking Sharp or Samsung?

I'm off to buy one tomorrow - depending on snow...

Cheers

Tim


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Something took out the RCBO. Initially I blamed the rice cooker due to
possible condensation running onto the appliance plug at the base).

Upon restoring power, microwave was dead which was kind of annoying as my
dinner's in it.

Whipped the case off (due care re HV capacitor etc - turns out *that* part
has plenty of secondary shielding anyway).

One of two fuses has blown on the mains incomer PCB (looks like this mostly
has filters on). Fuse was marked as "10A Special Fuse" - 1.25 inch jobbie,
I'm guessing semiconductor or somesuch type).

Did a rather dodgey test by wedging a 13A plugtop fuse in and lo, the
appliance powered up.

However, if I run the convection oven, the electronics power cycles after a
few seconds, resetting everything.

I'm guessing something in the electronics has developed a fault. Perhaps it
took out the RCBO. Could be a bad connection on my 13A fuse bodge, but it
looks like there's reasonable contact so I'm not running with that theory...

Anyway, at this point, I'm writing it off. It's been well used, case is
rather rusty round the edges and it has been buggering up the WIFI, which
Panasonic Inverter ovens are prone to do according to various forums (I ran
a microwave leakage detector round it ages ago - seemed OK).


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Tim Watts

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