MicroWave or 110 Outlets No Longer Work
While exercising generator yesterday, I thought turning on the microwave would help out. The microwave and the 110 outlets do not work now even when plugged into shore power. I reset all the breaker...
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Bumpyroad wrote:DrewE wrote:
It's not good to run a microwave oven with nothing in it. If you have a big bowl of water or something, there's nothing wrong with using it as a load for the generator, though other things may be somewhat more convenient.
I was going to mention the same thing but I believe that this is no longer the case for newer microwaves. don't know it for a fact however, but I always put a cup of water in there before turning any of mine on without a load.
bumpy
It's still very much true and largely unavoidable. It has to do mainly with the fact that there's nothing in the cavity to absorb the microwave energy, so it tends to bounce around and much of it ends up being absorbed by the magnetron, heating it up beyond what it normally does. A short period of time running empty accidentally isn't likely to cause damage, but it's a bad idea in any case.
