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Everything seems to work except there is no heating. Disconnected the high voltage section and monitored the 120vAC coming to board and it was good. Ohm checked the magnetron 170Mohms and 160Mohms from chasis to terminals and .12 ohms across terminals. Using an analog meter the resistance across each of the HV diodes are 60Kohms in one direction and ~infinite in the other. With a digital meter there are 125Mohms and 9Mohms. On the heat sink the bridge resistance between + and - was ~ 24K ohms. The gate to collector resistance was 38Kohms and the gate to emitter ohms was 10Kohms on thermistor? It appears the most likely part is the control board unless there is some other way to reset the controls. The micro switches checked good with the door opened or closed. What is that two pin connector at the bottom of the microwave that is not connected to anything?

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