XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: imvalid@somewear.com   
      
   On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 03:59:42 -0000, Robert Baer    
   wrote:   
      
   > 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).   
      
   I went for an interview in a place that designed industrial strength   
   magnetron.  There IS a block to absorb energy.  A microwave oven without one   
   is VERY badly designed.   
      
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