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Re: proposed measuring instrument



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From wosburn-at-utk.eduMon Aug  5 21:47:58 1996
> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:13:06 -0400
> From: "William L. Osburn" <wosburn-at-utk.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: proposed measuring instrument
> 
> Dear  rwstephens -
> 
> Believe it or not, I played aroumd with a microwave leakage detector around
> the coil and it made the meter needle swing.  Is my coil putting out
> microwaves?  Think I will cook my Thanksgiving turkey on my coil.  Scotty, I
> need MORE POWER!!!
> ;-)
> 
> Later,
> *** Magic Bill ***


Bill,

The average microwave detector will pick up any RF.  Unless you have a 
cavity with detector... unlikely..., then your simple detector is 
detecting the normal long wave energy from the coil.

Richard Hull, TCBOR