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Re: Spark Propadation

Subject:        c
       Date:    Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:15:31 -0700
       From:    Open Minded <bturner-at-apc-dot-net>
Organization:   I'm NOT organized!
         To:    Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subject:  Spark Propadation
>   Date:   Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:57:14 -0700
>   From:   Gary Weaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>     To:   tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>  
> Next. I found a microwave oven at the scrap yard.  After putting some
> jumper wires across the door switch, the ON/OFF switch and a few other
> things it got it to come on.  I removed the case and removed the end
> cover on the wave guide.  I aimed the wave guide at a slice of bread
> stuck on the wall with a thumb tack.  It warmed the bread up very fast.
> I put the bread about 10' away and it still got warm with the wave guide
> aimed at the bread.  I aimed the wave guide at a bird house 20' away in
> the yard and waited for a bird to
> come.  When the bird came I turned ON the microwave.  After about 2
> seconds the bird fell off its pirch like a rock and about 3' from the
> ground it came back to life and flew away.  I aimed the microwave across
> the top of the TC toroid and turned them both on.  The microwave beam
> does not seem to help transmit sparks threw the air.  I can not see any
> change in the sparks.
> 

> 
> Gary Weaver    Experement 7928


Gary -

  What ever you do, DON'T RUN A MICROWAVE OVEN IN THIS FASHION!
You can get backscatter with the microwave energy. At 1Kw, you are
literally cooking anything INCLUDING YOU that encounters any of that
microwave energy. Aiming it at a wall WILL cause some reflected
energy, which just might cook YOU or others in the room or house!

  Also, by pointing the waveguide at that birdhouse, who knows where
the rest of the beam energy went. Did it happily go zipping into your
neighbor's house and cook their kid(s)? You have no way of knowing
that. DON'T FOOL WITH MICROWAVE ENERGY UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT
YOU ARE DOING, AND KNOW THE SAFETY RULES AND UNDERSTAND THE PROPERTIES
OF MICROWAVE ENERGY.

Sorry to 'yell' like that, but a stunt like this -- while an honest
attempt at trying out an idea -- is a bad thing. It only takes one
or two accidents to put a kabosh on the idea of Tesla coils and
home science experimentors. Not to mention the possibility of your
facing a MILLION dollar (or higher) lawsuit. It isn't worth it.

- Brent (who *always* coils in a safe and responsible manner)