The light Panasonic ovens that say something like Inverter on the logo are switchers. No heavy transformer anymore. They provide negative polarity hot and operate in a current limit mode, not voltage regulation. There is a website on them, if you search for it, that talks about dissection of one, and the test results. They are pretty neat power supplies, providing like 1/2 amp of DC at >2kV. But very dangerous to play around with, unless you isolate, isolate, isolate.
If you do decide to pass on the power supply, I would love to have one to play around with sometime. Might eventually be reconfigured to make a nice tube power supply. John K5PRO - > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:08:07 -0500 > From: "Rick Brashear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [AMRadio] Microwave > This is a tad off topic, but still has roots in radio. My microwave bit the > dust and before I haul it out front for the scavengers is there any part of > it that might be usable in our radio field? How about the diodes? I am > assuming it has some kind of transformer, but it couldn't be much since the > thing is not heavy at all. It's a big Panasonic oven, but the insides don't > look promising. Any suggestions? ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
