I'll take care to magnetron overheating.
Using the owen without any load ( chicken, coffe etc ) inside, will cause
standing waves which will heat excesively the magnetron.
There would be no problems if the thermal protection is ok. One is on the
magnetron and another two are mounted on the owen chamber, on top.
The experiment is not very interesting on standard microvawe owen because
the whole microvawe distribution is located in a quite large volume.
Imagine your experiment in 10 cubic centimeter volume with the same 900W
magnetron power ( a power inside the load between 0 and 900W depend of
load permitivity ). I can tell you is much interesting !

http://www.geocities.com/vsurducan/electro/micro/micro.htm

regards,
Vasile



On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Benjamin Bromilow wrote:

> Aha!
> Well the match smokes alot when the door is closed...
> Then when the microwave is turned on it hums really loudly and you get long
> bolts of electricity shooting down the smoke trail from the magnetron to the
> matchstick..... The microwave gets rather hot though and you get large bits
> blown off the magnetron body... Good fun if you've got an old microwave you
> don't want anymore!!! Much better than CDs, lightbulbs or little balls of
> aliminium foil......
> I wonder why I'm not going out with that chick anymore......
> Ben
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wagner Lipnharski" <wagner@USTR.NET>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [EE]:Flashover voltage in Air?
>
>
> > Benjamin Bromilow wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > The burning match in a microwave experiment
> > > comes to mind with all this talk of sparks.
> > > It never did cook the same afterwards......
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > What happened with the match in the microwave?
> >
> > Now I got afraid to experiment by myself.
> > Not afraid from the experiment, nor even because
> > what can happens to the oven, but very afraid
> > what could happens to ME when wife finds out.
> > Probably severe "fried in the pan"?
> >
> > Wagner.
> >
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