The overall efficiency in a domestic microwave oven is very small.
Not because the magnetron but because the supplying transformer
(assuming the oven is not Panasonic and has no inverter) and the way
microwaves are absorbed in the food.
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On 4/17/07, Warren Jackson <wjackson@sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> roughly what is the efficiency of a magnetron tube in a typical microwave?
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