Why does it need to be an LED bulb, it's not like anyone leaves a
freezer light bulb on long enough to rack up their electric bill. I'd
think an ordinary appliance bulb you can buy for a buck at the
stupidmarket would work just fine. I never thought to replace the
refrigerator-freezer bulb with LEDs In fact our fridge/top freezer
has never needed it's two bulbs replaced and they've been working more
than 20 years. I replaced the stove's oven bulb once after some 20
years.
The new Toshiba microwave we recently bought has an LED bulb, however
the GE microwave it replaced was about 40 years old and never needed
its ordinary bulb replaced, and a microwave oven light is on whenever
it's operating.
Now I'm curious, I need to look at how an LED microwave bulb is
replaced. I see no way to access the bulb and the owner's manual
doesn't mention the bulb. So I just got off the phone with Toshiba
and was told that they do not replace bulbs, some appliance repair
places might but Toshiba does not. If the bulb burns out I can
continue to use the oven, so that's what I'll do. The Toshiba fellow
I spoke to told me that during the one year warranty period if the
bulb burns out to ship the unit back to Toshiba and they will send me
a new unit, they don't do bulbs. Perhaps the LED bulb supplied will
last 20 years, I may not be around then. If the unit dies in the next
five years I'll simply buy a new microwave oven, they don't cost much
anymore. My first microwave was an Amana Radar Oven, It cost well
over $500, and weighed close to 500 pounds, so it seemed. This
Toshiba cost $75, weighs perhaps 25 pounds... it works perfectly and
has programable features we'll never use... so far it's been used to
reheat a cup of tea and to defrost... an hour ago it defrosted a quart
of beef mushroom barley soup, dinner tonight.
I'm thinking now that the LED bulb won't burn out during this century
so why make it accessable. The techie I spoke with said I'm the only
one who ever asked about how to change the LED bulb.