XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: robertbaer@localnet.com   
      
   James Wilkinson Sword wrote:   
   > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:49:55 -0000, rickman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > You'd think there would be something that absorbs microwaves that miss   
   > the food.  And you'd think such a thing would have a thermal cutout.   
   > Anybody want to try it?   
   >   
      IDIOT!   
      ain't nuttin that "absorbs" the energy.   
      Ask how the maggie works with highly mis-matched loads (hi SWR).   
      
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