KitchenAid Microwave

KitchenAid KEMC378KBT

Model # KEMC378KBT

The KEMC378KBT is a KitchenAid microwave oven. No published specification for this model was recovered, and none is invented here to fill the space. KitchenAid’s US product site carried it from November 2003 to August 2004, and nothing was captured for it afterwards.

KitchenAid appends a two-digit production-revision code to the base number on the rating plate, and the codes actually observed for this model are KEMC378KBT04. A plate reading one of those is still a KEMC378KBT; the suffix identifies which production revision you have, and it occasionally decides which version of a part fits. That puts the KEMC378KBT two decades or more into use, which is where the door latch, the interlock switches and the turntable drive start to decide how the machine behaves. The KEMC378KBT is no longer made, so what can actually be obtained for it is the first thing looked at, not the last.

Key Features

  • No published specification for this model was recovered
  • Recorded on KitchenAid's US product site from November 2003 to August 2004
  • Rating-plate revision codes observed for this model: KEMC378KBT04
  • A KitchenAid owner's manual for this model is on record

Most Common Issues on This Model

01

A door seal face damaged, which the oven can read as an interlock fault

02

A magnetron reaching the end of its life, showing as heating that has become slow and uneven

03

A door interlock switch that has failed, so the oven lights and runs its fan but will not heat

04

Touch panel and membrane failure, where a key is ignored or repeats on its own

Error Codes Common to This Model

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FAQ

KitchenAid KEMC378KBT FAQ

KitchenAid places the plate inside the door, so that is where the KEMC378KBT label will be. Model and serial are printed on the same sticker. Getting the KEMC378KBT number exactly right matters most on an older machine, where parts diverged between otherwise identical-looking siblings.

Then the job stops there and you are told. The KEMC378KBT has been out of production for long enough that this is a real possibility on some components, which is why availability for a KEMC378KBT is checked before a diagnosis is charged for rather than after.

That is typically a thermal protector reacting to a blocked cooling path. With the KEMC378KBT unplugged at the wall, the external vents and filters of a KEMC378KBT can be cleared, which sometimes settles it. If a KEMC378KBT keeps stopping after that, the fault is internal and is a technician's job.

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