Re: Microwave Question

When you say it does it on all 10 power levels, you are not seeing the
operation from the right viewpoint. You cannot control the output power of a
magnetron. It's either producing microwaves at full chat, or not at all. The
power setting is controlled by interupting the amount of time that the mag
is turned on for, so at 100% power, it's running all the time, at 50% power,
it's only running for half the time and so on. You will probably have heard
the transformer going KAWOMM as the mag cuts in and out.

This means that you are hitting those poor peas with 1100 watts of RF each
time the mag cuts in. Even if you are down on 10% power and you set the
timer for 1 minute, the 6 seconds that the mag would be on during that time
( probably three bursts of 2 seconds ), will probably be enough to make the
poor peas explode ...

The cup of water is a sound idea, as it provides a better load for the
magnetron. Very small quantities of food represent very little load, and
this can lead to rapid demise of the mag.

Geoff
"NSM" <nowrite@xxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Cobalt" <spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ya, could be hard water...have seen old iron pipes that run underground
> make
>> the water hard because the rust gets into the water.
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> And slamming 1100 W into 10 kernels of dry corn isn't going to work
> either!
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> N
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