Re: Weird Microwave problem - trips breaker when you shut the door!

nvic wrote: 
to ron: The one i took apart with same problem and dying mag did.
switch across main, hot to neutral. see Sam GoldWasser's post.

That must be the US way then, in over 15 years of repairing microwave ovens* here in the UK I can't recall seeing one without the resistor.(Sometimes it looks like a slowblow fuse, with what looks like a spring inside) It should still blow the internal fuse first unless the mains breaker is unusually sensitive

* A business now sadly gone, people just buy a cheap replacement, it`s cheaper to buy a new oven than to have a fuse replaced

Ron

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