WHIRLPOOL CONSUMER SERVICES
Models AVM595 WH
AVM595 BL
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QUICK SERVICE REFERENCES
PROBLEM
POINTS TO CHECK
Cavity lamp does not light, but other
electrical components (e.g. turntable) are
working.
1. Lamp failed.
2. Bad contact between lamp and
lamp socket.
Cavity lamp does not light, all other
electrical components also do not work.
1. Power plug not in good connection
with the socket. House fuse
ruptured. No power supply.
2. Internal fuse ruptured.
3. Bad contact between fuse and fuse
holder/clip.
4. Loose door hinge, door poorly
adjusted, interlock poorly adjusted;
causing internal fuse to rupture.
5. Short circuit within electrical circuit.
Lamp filament short, HV
transformer short, all causing fuse
to rupture.
6. Bad contact in contacts or terminals
of timer switch, primary and
secondary interlock switch.
7. HV diode break down.
Oven seems working, food does not cook
1. Defective magnetron (filament
broken, filament short to earth etc.).
2. Earth wire of HV transformer
broken. (One end of HV winding is
normally connected to the core.)
3. Filament wire shorted to earth.
4. Filament wire broken.
5. Bad contact in magnetron
terminals.
6. Defective control boards.
7. HV diode break down, causing a
humming noise from transformer.
Oven cooks for a short while and stop.
1. Cooling fan jammed.
2. Cooling fan motor open circuit.
3. Defective cooling fan control relay.
Turntable does not turn.
1. Defective turntable motor.
2. Turntable shaft deformed.
User circuit breaker activates.
1. High leakage in electrical
components (mostly motor).
