XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: gnuarm@gmail.com   
      
   James Wilkinson Sword wrote on 12/11/2017 11:50 AM:   
   > On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:07:43 -0000, Mary-Jane Rottencrotch   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2007-01-19 12:13, Peter Fucker wrote:   
   >>> Is it really true that turning on a microwave with nothing in it will   
   >>> break it?   
   >>   
   >> Derp.   
   >   
   > It was a sensible question.  This could be done by accident.   
      
   I interviewed with a place once that was doing something with testing   
   microwave ovens.  They ran them all the time with nothing in them.  I had   
   always read that you should not operate them with nothing to absorb the   
   energy and mentioned that.  I got a strange look from the guy.  Obviously   
   the energy that would be absorbed is within the limits of what the ovens   
   were designed to get rid of.   
      
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   Rick C   
      
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   on the centerline of totality since 1998   
      
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