Why did my hot air popper stop working mid-use?
The hot air popper was working fine and then it suddenly shut off. Why did it do this and what should I do?
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The engineers at presto had a delicate balancing act. Too hot and it could start a fire. chances are you were trying to make more than a half of cup of popcorn and live at an altitude greater than 2000’. In addition to the thermal fuse a thermal switch was installed to prevent overheating. All testing for Presto was completed in EuClaire Wisconsin (low Altitude). My 10 yr old daughter tested ours out at many different altitudes and found that the fan they installed only works as designed in denser air (low altitude). If you live in Denver Colorado or Park City Utah a half cup is all you’ll ever get out of it before extensive cooling is required.
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Thank you! I was about to trash it, but this solves the mystery. Works fine with no popcorn. Was shutting off after a few seconds when overloaded and living at high altitude!
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If the popper is plugged into the appropriate outlet, and the power cord has been thoroughly checked then the motor could be bad. To fix this issue change the motor.
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The poplite does have a thermostat on it as a safety function. If you pop too much too often, the unit will get too hot and will stop.
What if it doesn’t heat up once plugged in ? Junk it ?
Check your breaker box.
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I have a Presto Orville Redenbacher's Fountain Hot Air Popper Popcorn, 20 Cups, Red (title copied and pasted off of Amazon) and I was washing the dishes, keeping a close eye, or, more importantly, ear, on the machine. I don't have the instruction manual, but I know general advice is to wait until it's popping continuously then wait until it slows down to two to three seconds between each pop. I'd added half a cup of kernels, where the max line is, or at least where the line that I assume is a max line is. I made popcorn this way last night and it was fine. It was at the height of it's 'popping action' so to speak when the machine just flew off the counter. Like the air had suddenly decided to take a day off and misbehave and blew upside down and launch the machine up instead of right side up where it's supposed to go. The lid, being only held down by gravity, went flying and so did the popcorn. I unplugged it as quickly as possible, trying not to step on any hot kernels-I learned yesterday that they are...
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Continuation of previous comment: hot enough to melt ziplock bags-I have a hole in the dog treat bag from a stray kernel. I unplugged it as quickly as I could without touching hot kernels and vacuumed it all up then washed out the vacuum chamber. Got a fresh half cup and tried again. Went good until probably no more than a minute. Then it just stopped. It's been a while, long enough for me to type this out and see if we had another one (we did but that brand melted on me before.) I'm about to go test it to see if it'll work again. Brb. Ok it did. I think it just needed to cool off. Guess I'm the future I won't multitask unless I can keep my hand on the bowl.
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