Compact microwave.

I don't have one of those. I replaced the microwave on our Tomcat with a convection oven. It's a much more flexible device as i can bake and broil in it too. Not good for making coffee our hot water but better for every thing else.
 
It says 750 watts for cooking power. Wonder what the actual consumption is? Can a Honda EU1000 run it?
 
We went to the Victoria, BC in some nasty weather last week where we had closely stacked 5 foot wind waves (25 knot winds) which brought a lot of water over the bow and really tossed us around. Some items which were sitting on counters or unsecured found their way onto the floor.

We just purchased a 750 watt 0.5 cubic feet microwave which we plan to house on the counter of the rear port side locker. I believe in its proposed location, it would have fallen off the countertop. So my question is how have folks secured their countertop microwaves to keep them from bouncing around or falling off the countertop in big wave conditions.

Wondered if Museum Putty would have the ability to hold the microwave. It is designed to hold items in earthquakes, but not necessarily the weight and movement of a boat crashing in big waves.

As always your help is appreciated.
 
I made a shelf under the dinette for a small microwave; put non-skid on that and the microwave never moved. Low in the boat, but you did have to put your head under the dinette table to use it.
 
I don't know how your oven is set up but the convection/toaster oven I installed has some side handles on it. I drilled holes through those and put blind nuts in the shelf. That allowed me to bolt it down on both sides. See below.
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One other way of securing the microwave is to make some foot blocks, screw or glue them to the shelf top. cut holes in the top of the block, the same size as the feet of the microwave. I have then used a small piece of shock cord to be sure it did not bounce out of the cut outs in these blocks.

I also have some museum putty. It might be adequate, but I find many uses for it.
 
Bob, I have found that the 750 watt cooking power microwaves trip my Eu1000.

One has to search to find an old school 600w cooking power microwave.

The bonus is that it has analog controls, I have also found that inexpensive digital control boards don't last long in a marine environment. Same thing with AC units.

My 5,000BTU analog Ac barely runs up the RPM's on the eco throttle on my EU1000, But the EU1000 has to work hard to power even the 600W microwave.
Some microwaves list the actual power consumption, some only the cooking power. It seems that on small microwaves the actual power consumption is 200-300 more watts that the cooking power listed

Here is an example http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/301845045945


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