dodgey new microwave?

paddles

Bought a new Russell hobbes microwave but it is creating terrible feedback from my radio. Same radio lived beside previous microwave for yrs and this never happened and this time its situated even further away from the microwave than before. Ive never seen/ heard this before.

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A microwave oven, even in good condition, will always 'leak' a small amount of microwave energy, probably enough to detect with a fairly simple probe, but not enough to be harmful. The amount of leakage might be roughly equivalent to the power transmitted by a mobile phone handset in use.

The relatively small and safe amount of leaked microwave energy can still be enough to cause very nearby electronics to misbehave.

How far away is the radio?

paddles

Opposite side of the kitchen, 10ft maybe. In my last kitchen it was only about 2ft from the old microwave and i never had feedback. I cant listen to radio when new microwave is on as its a strong buzzing noise from radio.

hoodwinked

to be fair i never owned their microwave BUT i did buy a russell hobbs 4 slice toaster (i thought they were a good enough brand name) i got a refund for it, as it kept tripping the switch, it was a common problem, since then ive heard of a good few people who had problems with the brand and different items, can you contact them to see if your microwave is prone to this issue?

paddles

hoodwinked wrote: »

to be fair i never owned their microwave BUT i did buy a russell hobbs 4 slice toaster (i thought they were a good enough brand name) i got a refund for it, as it kept tripping the switch, it was a common problem, since then ive heard of a good few people who had problems with the brand and different items, can you contact them to see if your microwave is prone to this issue?

Thanks. Not happy about it as have lived with various microwaves over the years and never this prob.