On 10/27/06, Vasile Surducan wrote: > On 10/26/06, David VanHorn wrote: > > I'm constantly amazed at what the patent office thinks is "not obvious to > > the skilled practitioner". High power RF has been done this way since > > forever. > > I have doubts it will work so easily. BTW do you see the pictures > from this patent? > Any magnetron pumped like this is susceptible to fast overheating. > One simple example: turn on an empty microwave oven. > Because of reflections inside the heating chamber the thermal > protection from the magnetron will be OFF in less than 3-4 minutes > (100% continous power). > Pumping into a magnetron cavity only a small part from microwave > energy from other magnetron is not an easy job. When you must do it in > both direction is much complicated. > > Where are drawings ? ok , I see them after tiff plugins installed -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist