Hi! I just purchased the same microwave, and came online to find the solution. I was then able to find the correct answer to this problem. On this model, Emerson does not put a "time cook" button for odd cook times such as 15 seconds. Instead, they have you push the "Power Button" prior to setting the cook time.
If you want to cook on full power, press the power button once, and then enter your cooking time and press start. If you want to cook on 50% power or 30% power or something like that, push the "Power Button" several times until the appropriate power level is displayed, then enter the cook time and press start.
The reason that it starts up right away when *********** pushes the 1 button is because Emerson has the quick cooking feature for 1 minute through 6 minutes. You only have to push the number once to get the 1 minute cook time or anywhere through 6 minutes respectively.
Hope this helps!
Here's a link to the PDF version for that microwave model.
http://www.emersonradio.com/owners/MWO%20manual/MW8119SB%20Owner's%20Manual.pdf
Here's a link to all sorts of Emerson Product manuals:
http://www.emersonradio.com/owners/MWO%20manual/
I see on the lower part of page 10 that the instruction for "One Stage" cooking only requires that you enter the minutes and seconds for cooking time and press Start.
I'd suspect it's similar to entering numbers on a calculator, but you get two digits for minutes, then two digits for seconds.
The default power level is always maximum.
I see, yes the manual provided is incomplete.
It sounds like a "Reheat Serving" or some fancy option is running.
Be shure to hit the "Reset" button a bunch of times then just press 1 then 5 it should fill the display from left to right with 00:15 ; then press "Start"
If the microwave starts before you press start, then something is not right.
I know with my microwave, if I hit the "Reheat serving", it only expects a single digit for the number of servings, and it calculates how many minutes, seconds and power rating will be necessary and begins right away.
This sounds like what your mothers Microwave is doing.
All I can suggest is to avoid pressing any options before entering numbers for the time.
Cheers,
Richard
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Thanks for the link.
I downloaded the manual and it seems that pages 9 and 10 are only partially there. The whole description on one stage cooking seems to be only somewhat there. She tells me that as soon as she presses the first number (like you would do to enter the time) it starts up. Like if she wanted to put in 15 seconds as soon as she presses the one something starts up. It is new so maybe it is not completely functional.
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