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   From: imvalid@somewear.com   
      
   On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 05:39:04 -0000, Robert Baer    
   wrote:   
      
   > James Wilkinson Sword wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >    Rule of thumb or any commercial (= = volume) item is: for every fifty   
   > cent cost to make, selling price must go up by five dollars (cars, toys,   
   > etc).   
   >    Industrial grade magge-powered ovens cost a lot more than the over   
   > the counter el-cheapos that the great unwashed buy.   
      
   Why would you need to make $4.50 extra because you spend $0.50 more on the   
   production?   
      
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