Re: High voltage standing waves with a magnetron?

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Original poster: "Robert Jones" <alwynj48-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

Hi,

First as others have said be very careful. I suggest you buy a MO leak
detector and use it.
 >From memory of working on 10GHz stuff the max exposure was 10mW/cm.cm of
skin. Tissues with poor blood supply like eye balls don't need much power to
cook.
If you don't know what your doing don't do it. If you must experiment keep
several yards away from your powered experiments or do them inside an old
MO.

The magnetron acts like a  3,000v(approx) zener diode so to control the
output power you need control the current. Hence the current limited MOT.
It has a minimum start up current which may still be a lot of watts out.

You could test out the limits of some Tesla coil design programs by building
a 2.5 GHz miniature Tesla coil with say a 1/4in high secondary and a ball
bearing top load.
I assume this would be an MPTC a magnetron powered Tesla coil or a RETC
radiation excited Tesla Coil.

Bob

 > Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
 >
 > I was just curious if anyone experimented with high voltage standing waves
 > from a magnetron and trying to create a resonant rise from them? My idea
 > for a safe experiment, would be taking a small microwave oven magnetron,
 > power the filament at that standard 3 volts ac or dc, and applying
 > EXTREMELY small power HV DC current to the entire device, like 4000 volts
 > at a half a milliamp, to keep the power output at about 2 watts rather
than
 > the normal 1KW, would a circuit like this work? Or would the heating
 > current to the filament have to be reduced as well?
 >
 >