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Micro not heating food how fix - Microwave Ovens

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Take the body cover off the unit and locate the little glass tube fuse. Verify it's the condition, failed or intact. and if failed replace. Most often times they fail for any number of reasons, too much metal inside when heating is the most common.

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Is there a reset button?
Does it make any noise at all when started?
Does a light come on anywhere?
Is it plugged in?
Is there a power strip somewhere?
If it is plugged into an AC outlet is the circuit breaker to that outlet broken?
Is there a smell?
Is it a microwave-only unit or is it microwave and convection type?
Does the turntable turn and yet there is no warming of the food?

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Replace the HV capacitor

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When it did heat food before and you used the same settings now, the microwave must be defect.
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Its your Magnatron tube, thats what makes the microwaves and heats the food. The part will cost you more than a new micro. The new model that replaced yours is a JVM1540 and you can get them for 179.00

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Jan 17, 2011 • GE JVM1440 Microwave Oven

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My microwave starts however food does not heat up.

Micro wave as the name suggests produces heat when the micro waves aimed at an object causes the water molecules inside the object to vibrate hence producing heat.The gadget responsible is the magnetron. If your magnetron is not receiving ht voltage or receiving but faulty, then your micro wave wont work please take precaution when opening micro wave due to high voltage caps that remain charged sometimes even when it is off.check the high voltage fuse/ diode and capacitor if they are fine and the step up trans former o.k then the only option is to replace the magnetron

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Micro wave wont heat up food.. i think its the

Replace the HV capacitor

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Sep 13, 2009 • Microwave Ovens

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My micro wont heat the food but everything else seems ok

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Oct 05, 2008 • Microwave Ovens

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GE Over range microwave, JVM1660

This just happened to ours as well. Apparently the magnetron (device that creates radio waves that heat the food) is broken. I'm trying to pry the darn thing out of our kitchen now so I can replace the magnetron. Look for this part WB27X10489 on Google. I found it on ebay for $65. If it fixes the problem I'll post again.

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