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Re: Microwave coiling.




From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 18, 1997 6:11 PM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	Re: Microwave coiling.

Hi Lynn,

> From:   Lynn Anderson[SMTP:aasphalt-at-win.bright-dot-net]
> Sent:   Thursday, September 18, 1997 9:35 AM
> To:     tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject:    Microwave coiling.
> 
>  Four numbers on my microwave ovens keypad have quit working. I am going to
> buy a new one. My question: what will I be able to salvage that would be
> useful for coiling? It still works. Would it be useful as is for some lab
> heating purpose? The last one I used for target practice. This time I shall
> be more practical. Specs.- 1500 watt 2450 MHZ  Thanks, Lynn. 

If you decide to wreck the oven, the transformer would be extremely 
useful as a charging choke in conjunction with another uWave 
transformer. On its own, output is really too low to be useful. You 
could it and the diode and cap as a half-wave doubler supply which 
starts getting there.

Malcolm