What is the goal of the project?
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 9:28 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: > Pretty sure these consumer grade microwave ovens are robust from mismatch > issues. > They have to be considering all the different loads you can put in the > oven. An open waveguide is actually a pretty good antenna with a return > loss of around 10 dB. But then it is piped into a box that is totally > reflective. In my case I aim the field at a layer of silicon carbide to > absorb the energy and convert it to heat. > > *From:* Jan-GAMs > *Sent:* Saturday, January 1, 2022 8:14 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun > > > Yeah, and it's likely to blow the magnatron from the VSWR mismatch. It's > been 50 years since I worked with that stuff and had the fancy government > tools. Kind of miss it. > On 1/1/22 18:50, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > If you get hit from an open waveguide it feels like flame. > > > > *From:* Jan-GAMs > *Sent:* Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:03 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun > > > 1250 watts of 5GHz radiation or 2GHz of radiation (whichever spectrum it > was designed for) is damn dangerous if not shielded. I knew people who > died from that. Someone turned on a radar while the array was being worked > on. He died. You could pull a Daniel Jackson, but Olma won't ascend you. > On 1/1/22 09:04, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > Yeah, I have a radiation alarm. It was going off continually, for a > moment I thought it was defective. > Turns out I had a thermocouple wire leaking some RF. Burnt the piss out > of my fingers, like picking up a red hot paper clip. Shut off the > magnetron and the wire was totally cool to the touch. Bit of aluminum foil > as a choke and all was well. Next step is coupling a second magnetron to > this cavity. > > > *From:* Jan-GAMs > *Sent:* Saturday, January 1, 2022 4:08 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun > > > the warning about eyes and testes should be noted. > https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/resources-you-radiation-emitting-products/microwave-oven-radiation > On 12/31/21 16:48, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > Pee on it...it works > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 1:37 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Got a pretty bad RF burn from some leakage. No blister. >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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