How to repair a do-it-yourself microwave oven

It seems to me that it’s not worth advertising such video courses, professionals with the appropriate license should deal with the repair. In the pursuit of profit and cheapness, we often forget about safety.
This site is very good in terms of a review of various technical innovations, but the mat part is lame. There are a lot of tips on all kinds of work related to electricity, but there is no compliance with GOSTs and PUE.

Zhora, it’s precisely on such video courses that they become professionals. Or do you think that they are born?

It is believed that they become a specialist only after an educational institution. But this is a myth.I myself have been working in college for many years and see that the knowledge that students get there is clearly not enough for real practical activity. It takes a long practice, work under the supervision of an experienced knowledgeable mentor who in the process will share all the intricacies of his skill, and of course, the desire to constantly improve in his profession. No way without it.

But, unfortunately, now is the time that no specialist will share his secrets with anyone. Why should he raise his competitors? On the Internet, on forums and sites, if you really try, you can find a lot of valuable information. But these are all crumbs of what work under the guidance of a real pro can give.

I am not a supporter of advertising all in a row, if only it falls into the theme of the site. Regular readers of my site and newsletters know about this. In fact, up to this point I was actively promoting only the video course of Mikhail Vanyushin, as I was completely sure of its practical usefulness and that thanks to this course people can get a good base in electrical engineering and the basics of electronics. The course described in the article is very well studied precisely in the continuation of the discs from Mikhail.

A microwave repair course is good in that it allows you to seriously advance and gain practical repair skills in a specific area, i.e. there is no water, there is only specific practical information and examples of real activities of the master, and even in video format. For such video courses, the future, and precisely thanks to them, can turn from just a "person with a diploma" into a professional.

Well, persuaded! Honestly, I downloaded the course of Mikhail Vanyushin from the torrent))), the price for it was a bit confusing. I'll wait until a torrent appears on the repair of microwave ovens and also download))) !!!

It will not appear, but even if it does, then in a global sense it will not change anything. Whoever wants something to be of use to him is sure to buy it. Free information, alas, basically only takes up disk space and does not provide new knowledge. There is no incentive to study it.

Imagine Zhora, Mikhail’s course on torrents appeared almost from the moment it was released, and despite this, it has been actively sold for more than two years. A man put a lot of work and personal time into his disk, found working methods of presenting material, tries to further develop his project, wrote a book based on the disk materials, which is a best seller in his niche on Ozone. Is his work impossible not to respect? Have you even learned what you downloaded? Or are you in the process of searching and downloading other files you need, and left to study later what was already downloaded?

I looked only at some sections that interested me. But that is not the point at all. At work, a lot of different technical literature comes to our department, good and bad equally. Now everyone who is not lazy is trying to release something and make money on it. If a person is not special, it is very difficult for him to navigate in this literature, and gross errors are encountered in it. The last reference was from E.G. Akimova "Selection, design and installation of electrical installations of buildings". There are many different errors in this book.

In my opinion, the best books were from the Soviet period. Even now, new editions use copies of various diagrams and drawings without even bothering to edit them, they simply make a copy and paste it into their book.

Only trusted literature needs to be trusted. We have many books by R.N. Karjakina, who is a doctor of technical sciences.

Personally, I would not regret the money for the books of R.N. Karjakina, because he is a specialist. And who are these people who release these video courses? I think there is a banal desire to make money, no more than.They can be considered only as an addition, but the basis should still be state standards and rules for the installation of electrical installations.

I also love good books, especially old Soviet ones, and I agree that the PUE is the law. Books are written and published for different purposes. The publisher is trying to make money, the author, rather for the sake of prestige, because the money earned by writing technical literature is very small (he wrote and received a penny). In any book of useful and relatively new information, a maximum of 20%. This is because most authors do not have real practical experience. They have only the experience of systematizing and processing information from other books, the experience of defending a dissertation, etc. And how can such books help a young specialist who wants to develop in the profession?

Training video courses help people gain new knowledge and practical experience. And even if the authors of the courses are not doctors and candidates of sciences, then this is even a plus for them, since they are primarily practitioners, not theoreticians. Naturally, any work must be paid. And if a person shared his practical experience, told and showed all the subtleties and nuances of his activity, and was not too lazy to arrange all this in a beautiful form, then it’s not a pity to pay the amount, even much more than the cost of an often completely useless book.

I am not against these courses, as they can be very useful, but only if there is some specific knowledge base so that a person can distinguish between “how good and how bad”.

This resembles the debate on the use of RCDs. After all, how many various sites and forums on this topic. If you don’t own a certain baggage, then you can easily take the advice of some “Kulibin” at face value, which with foam at the mouth I prove my case.

The same thing with video courses. There are so many video courses advertisements from Mr. Vanyushin on the Internet that there is no desire to order them. Moreover, he offers them as a panacea immediately from everything, they say only buy and immediately you will know and be able to do everything.

I really like the series of programs of Nevzorov "lessons of atheism". And the point is not in his attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church. He rightly says there that nothing can be taken on faith. A person must possess a wealth of knowledge in order to be able to understand the essence of the matter.

The same applies to these video courses. There should be a base on PUE and guests, and only then the practical application of tips from these video courses.

After all, pay attention to how many fires and accidents associated with electricity. And all because now everyone who is not lazy is doing various electrical work, starting from wiring in the apartment and ending with the repair of microwave ovens.

Well, a person cannot do such things without the appropriate qualifications, professions, knowledge and experience. In Europe, for such types of work, without all of the above, they are prosecuted. There you do not have the right to even come close to the electrical panel, much less to do any installation in it or connections.

And with us, please, whatever you want and do. And then we are surprised that someone was killed by electric current from the intercom, that the connection was incorrect, someone killed by electric current in the fountain, because the installers made the wrong connection and forgot to put an RCD, someone burned out the house because the wiring was done by the uncle’s neighbor " Vania". And there are a lot of such cases, and for some reason no one has mentioned them. Only calls, buy our course, just buy, for the rest we can not vouch.

Sadly, all this is actually ... And where is the guarantee that after repairing the same microwave with the local "kulibin", which will watch these video courses, you or your loved ones will not be killed by electric shock ???

I completely agree about everything you wrote about safety precautions. This is actually a relevant and very important topic.Initially, I launched my site exclusively for people with an electrical education and clearly representing how dangerous electric current is when they are illiterate to handle it.

I even have the slogan "Site for electricians and sympathizers." By "sympathizers" I understood and understand people who are simply interested in the topics raised on the site. At some points, certain knowledge on the topics covered on the site may be useful even to non-electricians. For example, thanks to the materials of the site, it will be easier for them to understand and control what the specialists they hired do. How many people call themselves so, but in reality they are not? But at the same time, for people who do not have an electrical education, all the information on bgv.electricianexp.com is presented for informational and educational purposes only!

The target audience of the site is people who are professionally associated with electrical engineering and electronics, who want to develop, improve their skills and grow professionally. Only for such people do I recommend a microwave repair disc.

In general, in my opinion, there are specialized service centers for this, but an electrician can only see the wire, a fuse.

Zhora, Ruslan, I did not graduate from universities, so a priori I am self-taught. But the course is made from my own experience. If we take into account that mankind has an apocalyptic attitude now, then really such video courses pose a great threat.

If every self-taught person starts to record courses, then the number of self-taught will increase exponentially ..... and as a result, they (self-taught) will absorb the earth or even the whole universe .. :)

I apologize for the irony, but if you think so, then what about the books of the Solon Publishing House series - REPAIR or the magazines Radio and Repair & Service ...? Cancel them too ...? But I studied according to them, since there was no Internet yet. He will buy and study a video course, which books — for those who really need knowledge — but who don’t need anything, and these courses did not fall for free ... A video course is the same book, only much more visual.

The author of the course "Repair the microwave yourself!" Andrey Golubev

On the one hand, in order to repair a microwave oven, it is not at all necessary to complete an institute, because for this it is not at all necessary to know what processes occur in the semiconductor of this furnace at the molecular level. On the other hand, the quality of literature and courses can be assessed only by a less or less specialist, and he hardly needs such courses, because he already knows. It’s hardly worthwhile to buy similar courses in order to make your own oven and forget about this drive, and even for money more than the cost of repairs — it’s cheaper to repair it in the service. And new knowledge ... Without practice, they are dead, but why pay for dead knowledge ...? Hence the conclusion: these courses are for "kulibin" lovers do it yourself or for those who want to earn it. But will there be enough of these courses for this - after all, you still can’t tell “for 1 sitting”, otherwise you can get into trouble, especially if the repairs are done in front of the customer ... I think a lot will depend on the price. I understand the authors of the course - they put experience and soul into them, but you need to understand that for most buyers they will simply wallow. And many potential buyers understand this, so they are not ready to pay much. Well, this is just my opinion.

In life, there are such self-taught people who are better versed in repairs than a graduate. My neighbor, Uncle Kolyan, is well versed in traumatology and pathological and normal. But without a diploma. It's about the brain, not the crust. Because I myself am a traumatologist with experience.