GE 1.2 cu. ft. Double Grill Microwave With Rotisserie, Jes1289sk
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With the GE Double Grill Microwave with Rotisserie, you may never use your oven again! This innovative machine has an upper and lower heating element to grill, brown or broil foods. Its large, 1.2 cu. ft. capacity gives you plenty of cooking space for family-sized meals.
GE Double Grill Microwave With Rotisserie:
Upper and lower heating element can be used separately or together to grill, brown or broil foods
Removable rotisserie spit revolves 360 degrees for even cooking
1.2 cu. ft. capacity
1,000 watts of microwave power
Eight convenience buttons: defrost, timer, power, options, reheat, popcorn, beverage, express
Three time-cook buttons: brown, grill or microwave
36 pre-programmed settings to help cook your favorite foods
Timed and auto defrost
Adjustable power levels
Clock
Timer
Removable turntables revolve 360 degrees: one glass and one metal turntable
Innovative stainless steel design and easy-to-use dials.
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Technical Details
- Double-grill Technology With Rotisserie- 1000 Watts (IEC-705 Test Procedure)
- Preprogrammed Menu Items
- Removable Oven Rack
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By Dr. Sean Henry
This attractive stainless steel unit is all METAL inside! Of course, it has to be in order to use as a double grill/rotisserie, but, as we all know, you're not supposed to put METAL into a microwave. It causes a flashy electrical discharge, sort of like a welder's arc!
If everything is completely smooth inside a microwave with a METAL interior, this might not happen because there are no jagged edges for the electric arc to jump or reflect from. However, the design of the GE JES 1289 fails here ...
My experience with this model was identical as another reviewer: flashing electricity, an "electric chair" sound effect, followed by sudden microwave unit death! I suspect the browner/rotisserie heat warped a small panel inside the unit on the right side, causing uneven edges to reflect the electric discharge when used as a microwave. My unit did this from almost the day of purchase, but I was able to control the effect for over a year. Then, last week, I carelessly stepped out of the room and went upstairs while heating a cup of instant coffee in the unit. It began to arc, and I heard the loud noise, but couldn't race down the stairs fast enough to stop it. Within 20 seconds, it apparently burned out the unit, and it does not function anymore.
Don't buy the GE JES 1289 microwave oven!
By the way, my first microwave, a tiny and cheap 12-year-old Emerson MW8775W (700 watt, O.7 cu.ft) still works perfectly! It will have to pitch in until I replace this flawed GE unit.
By WolfMan (NJ)
Bought GE's JES1289 6/05 to replace my GE OMNI 5 that lasted 15+ years ~ LOVED that machine! It was a combined microwave, toaster, toaster oven, broiler & grill all-in-one. Still would have worked if I could have gotten new electronics/keypad, but parts were obsolete by the time it failed. Always thought GE made great products so didn't hesitate on the JES1289. What a mistake! Magnetron failed at 11.5 months; warranty covered replacement. Ran fine until 1/15/09 - magnetron again. Too costly to replace. Will not replace with another GE for the following reasons: 1) Repairman said GE knew there was a magnetron (mfrd. in China) problem on a certain production run there, but installed them in the JES line anyway, then sold them. He reported high failure rate. 'Inside' info was that GE didn't care about its Consumer Products (ergo, its retail customers); too interested in bigger bucks from industrial & military contracts. 2) Poor GE Customer Service: Warranty Repair: Waited all day to have first repair person think repair was on different appliance; he didn't 'do' microwaves & left. Had to wait all day again. Next person 'diagnosed' problem for a fee & left, even though I told them on my first report that I knew it was the magnetron. (They didn't believe me.) Parts were mailed to me. Had to wait all day again for actual repair. Total 'wait' from repair request to completion: 4.5 weeks. Total lost work days: 3. My request to be reimbursed for lost work time was met with cold silence. One rep I spoke to agreed with my anger & said he'd feel the same way, too, if the shoe were on his foot. Didn't bother w/Customer Service on current failure; if they still have the magnetron 'part', it will fail within a year or so.
ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES TIP: Used to be that appliances would last 15-20 years, including washers, dryers & refrigerators. They usually don't last that long any more and when they fail, it's usually the electronic components (circuit boards, keypads, lighted displays). TIP: If you think your appliance is going to last more than 10 years ~ and if you can afford it ~ buy that electronic 'part' within 2-3 years of appliance purchase. When it fails after 5-6-7 years & the repair dept. tells you the appliance needs to be replaced because 'they don't make that part any more," you can tell them to come on out because you have a brand new part for it. My gas range failed after 5 years for this reason, and was perfectly functional if it only had its electronics. The part may cost a few hundred bucks now, but the price only goes up later as it becomes harder to find.
By Leo P. Vaulin (Mobile, Alabama)
The design of this oven is really slick. The controls take a little time to get used to - one wheel replaces the traditional numeric keypad. The operation is very intuitive, so it doesn't take long to get the hang of it, and once you do, you're hooked - I could dial in what I wanted faster than I could keypunch on a conventional pad.
Note the use of the past tense. After 6-7 months, the unit stopped heating. We called G.E., and the first repair was fully covered by the 1 year warranty.
Then, after another 6-7 months, the unit developed an bizarre, and possibly dangerous, intermittent problem. We'd be heating something and hear a sudden deep buzz, like the sound effects in a Frankenstein movie. The inside would flash a very bright light - it looked like something was either burning or sparking intensely. At first, this happened once or twice a month, but on Christmas Eve, just in time for holiday cooking, it started to happen more often. We let it "rest", unplugged it for a while to drain its capacitors... no luck. We're just out of warranty, and out of luck.
Two breakdowns in under two years - that's not the sort of reliability I expect from G.E.
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April 30, 2016 at 8:17 AM
Oddly enough, I found the malfunction with this unit by accident. Inside the unit to the right there is a piece of material called the wave cover guide. I’m not sure of its composition. But it’s a cover that covers over the port hole to the magnetron. The actual indent in the metal case of the area for this piece is bigger than the actual piece GE puts in place. That’s the problem here. The piece of material they use has been made smaller than the actual area that can hold it. I’m guess to try to cut back the cost, they put in a much smaller piece then this area can hold. In other words, it can hold a much larger piece of material. So it’s my guess, to save some money, GE decided to reduce the size of this covering and by doing so it opens the possibility for this arcing to take place because the area is not as well protected. With this model, I always thought that replacing this piece when it got dirty or stained from cooking was what was helping me continue to use this model. It would start the arcing and I would replace the covering with a new one. Fixed it each time. But about 2-3 months later it would start to do it again. I went through about 5 of these. To date. And letting it go arcing, it eventually melts the metal cover to the magnetron and blows it out. (I know this because I replaced these as well) But by mistake the one time I ordered the wrong replacement pieces of this cover. Should be Part #WB06X10591, and what I accidentally ordered was Part #WB06X10634. But make sure you get the actual #WB06X10634 because they are trying to tell you it was replaced by the smaller one now. The second number is the wrong one for this unit as per GE but with a slight modification will work BETTER than the one GE suggests. The new pieces wrongly ordered) were actually the full size of the indent area with some tabs and so on in the wrong place. And as usual, the arcing started again and I went to get a new cover and I noticed I had the wrong ones. So I manually modified the piece that I had and put it back in its place. It has not done this arcing ever again since this last change out. I’m well over a year without this issue and it would have easily happened in 3 months. The standard one is like 3”x5”, and the wrong one I have is like a full 5”x5” and completely covers that entire area now. That’s the fix if you have not burned out your magnetron by now. It’s a relatively cheap, ($10.00 at www.geappliances.com) easy and quick fix but you need to have a hex security driver to remove the screws from the back and once inside it’s a single screw to remove the rotisserie holder, and once single plastic pop rivet which allows you to remove the smaller wave guide cover. Then with a few modifications to the larger wave guide cover with a sharp utility knife, and putting the larger on back in place, you have just solved the issue. It’s funny. To save what I will assume is a few cents, GE made this model a complete hazard. The model even has the indent for this larger Wave Guide Cover but they decided against using the original size. But once the larger size is in place it protects against from arcing ever again. Bad move GE from a consumer side of things, but a good move if you want to charge your customer for repair fees. In the end since what burns out won’t burn your house down so it’s relatively save, but the unit is destined to burn up in a relatively short amount of time unless you make this one small change and I think GE knew about this completely.