Re: Microwave Component

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Original poster: "Jan Florian Wagner by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>

Hi,

> how it could possibly work. i have some pics of it before disassembly on
> my site at http://www.fortunecity-dot-com/meltingpot/syria/1210/id26.htm

The pics don't show up! (netscape nor explorer) - shows "100mb free
webspace" advertisements instead. 

> I also cannibalized that inverter style microwave oven and found a very
> strange item, it is a round flat disk that was at the end of what looked
> like a plastic wave guide?

It of course might be a dielectric waveguide... They use these at
microwave freqs too, although, I must say that I've seen them more in
millimeterwave applications.

> It also had two thingys that i thought were
> thermistors of some sort mounted at different points of the metal
> cavity, but they are not thermisters?

Thermal switches of some sort - they have a small bimetal plate there,
when it heats up, it flips over and opens the switch.

cheers,
 - Jan

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