XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: robertbaer@localnet.com   
      
   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.   
   >   
      STUPID!   
      
      Microwave ovens *generate* (microwave) energy and cannot "get rid" of   
   any of that.   
      
      It boils down to how much of a load mis-match (SWR) can the magnetron   
   ("maggie") tolerate.   
      
      Nothing will "break", but the maggie may burn out.   
      
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