vakkotaur

The bad part is that my microwave oven, which I've had for about 10 years, stopped working last night, while in use. The good part was that there were only 10 seconds to go on what was in it. Also, it just stopped without any bangs, pops, sparks, flame, or smoke.

The clock still works, but there is no cooking. If the magnetron isn't dead, its power supply is. I am not about to attempt a repair. Microwave ovens have decidedly non-trivial power supplies. They need to in order to put out hundreds of Watts of microwave energy. An appliance repairman I once knew explained why he avoided working on microwave ovens:

If you work on a television and don't discharge the picture tube or the high-voltage capacitor in the fly-back section properly, it can throw you across the room and make you wish you were dead. Microwave ovens have big high-voltage capacitors, and with them, there's no wishing involved.

This morning jmaynard is checking on possible replacements. We'll almost certainly go pick up a replacement early this evening.