Microwave turns on and rotates but doesn't heat food
A microwave that lights up and spins normally can fail to heat due to internal relay issues or component damage caused by recent electrical sparking. This leaves you with a running appliance that cannot actually warm up food.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Testing internal components like fuses, capacitors, diodes, and magnetrons with a multimeter
- 2Measuring power consumption and voltage across relay coils
- 3Inspecting and cleaning door switches and terminals for grease buildup
- 4Unplugging the microwave and replacing it
- 5Using the stove instead
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I have tested the microwave (model privileg 8020) and: 1. the lamp is working, the turntable plate rotates, but the food does not heat up”source ↗
“It seems to me that the relay is not making contact between the two relay switches. But I don't know: is this supposed to be a normally open (NO) switch?”source ↗
“Microwave sparking a few times. I cleaned it, it stopped for a day or so. Sparked again now it’s not heating.”source ↗
Where this came up
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